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23 For like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light,
    and the way of life[a] is the reproof of discipline,
24 in order to preserve you from an evil woman,[b]
    from the smoothness of the tongue of an adulteress.[c]
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart;
    may she not capture you with her eyelashes.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:23 Hebrew “lives”
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Or “wife”
  3. Proverbs 6:24 Literally “a foreign woman”