Thursday, March 09, 2006

Do not Go for Your Neighbor's Wife - from Bible

Do not go for your neighbor’s wife,
Nor listen to an adulteress’ smooth tongue.
In your heart lust not for her beauty
Nor be captivated by glances of love.

A loose women is not worth
The price of a loaf of bread.
If she is married, she will
Trap you for all your life.

Will the burning fires of love
Spare the clothes a man wears?
Will a man walking on hot coal
Not get his feet burned?

If you are caught, her husband
Will give you a degrading beating.
No redress he will consider,
In vengeance you'll get thrashing.

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from Proverbs, Chapter 6
This is my rendering from different versions of Bible.

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