Proverbs 6:20-29

The chiastic structure of Proverbs 6:20-29

6:20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
	21 Bind them upon your heart always; tie them about your neck.
		22 When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.
			23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
				24 to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.
			25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
		26 for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.
	27 Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? 28 Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.