Proverbs 6:20-26

Tree of Life Version

²⁰ My son, keep your father’s mitzvah,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
²¹ Bind them on your heart continually—
tie them around your neck.
²² When you walk, they will guide you.
When you lie down, they will watch over you,
and when you wake up, they will speak to you.
²³ For the mitzvah is a lamp, Torah a light,
and corrective discipline the way of life,
²⁴ keeping you from the immoral woman,
from a wayward wife’s smooth tongue.
²⁵ Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyelids.
²⁶ For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a loaf of bread;
a man’s wife preys on your precious life.