²⁷ Can a man scoop a flame into his lap
    and not have his clothes catch on fire?

⁴ They are all adulterers,
    always aflame with lust.
They are like an oven that is kept hot
    while the baker is kneading the dough.
⁵ On royal holidays, the princes get drunk with wine,
    carousing with those who mock them.
⁶ Their hearts are like an oven
    blazing with intrigue.
Their plot smolders^[a] through the night,
    and in the morning it breaks out like a raging fire.
⁷ Burning like an oven,
    they consume their leaders.
They kill their kings one after another,
    and no one cries to me for help.

⁹ “If my heart has been seduced by a woman,
    or if I have lusted for my neighbor’s wife,
¹⁰ then let my wife serve^[a] another man;
    let other men sleep with her.
¹¹ For lust is a shameful sin,
    a crime that should be punished.
¹² It is a fire that burns all the way to hell.^[b]
    It would wipe out everything I own.