²⁰ My son, keep your father’s command;
    don’t abandon your mother’s instruction.
²¹ Bind them on your heart for all time;
    fasten them around your neck.
²² When you walk around, they will lead you;
    when you lie down, they will protect you;
    when you awake, they will occupy your attention.
²³ The commandment is a lamp and instruction a light;
    corrective teaching is the path of life.
²⁴ They guard you from the evil woman,
    from the flattering tongue of the foreign woman.
²⁵ Don’t desire her beauty in secret;
    don’t let her take you in with her eyelashes,