Commandment and Instruction as Guardians

• 20 the commandment of your father, and do not disregard the instruction of your mother.
• 21  tie them upon your neck.
• 22 [fn] she[fn] will lead you,[fn] she will watch over you,
• and when you awake, she will converse with you.
• 23 like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light, and the way of life[fn] is the reproof of discipline,
• 24 in order to preserve you from an evil woman,[fn]from the smoothness of the tongue of a[fn]
• 25  may she not capture you with her eyelashes.
• 26 the price of a woman, a prostitute,[fn]is the price of a loaf of bread, but the[fn] hunts precious life.