Commandment and Instruction as Guardians

• 20 My child, keep the commandment of your father, and do not disregard the instruction of your mother.
• 21 Bind them on your heart continually; tie them upon your neck.
• 22 When you walk ,[fn] she[fn] will lead you, When you lie down ,[fn] she will watch over you,
• and when you awake, she will converse with you.
• 23 For 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 an adulteress .[fn]
• 25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.
• 26 For the price of a woman, a prostitute,[fn] is the price of a loaf of bread, but the woman belonging to a man[fn] hunts precious life.