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22 (A)When you walk, they[a] will lead you;
    (B)when you lie down, they will (C)watch over you;
    and when you awake, they will talk with you.
23 For the commandment is (D)a lamp and the teaching a light,
    and the (E)reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24 to preserve you from the evil woman,[b]
    from the smooth tongue of (F)the adulteress.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:22 Hebrew it; three times in this verse
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbour
  3. Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman