He who committeth adultery [with] a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.
and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, ‘After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;
‘Thou dost not commit adultery.
In the lips of the intelligent is wisdom found, And a rod [is] for the back of him who is lacking understanding.
The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.
Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.
Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied [with] bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,
To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,
Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart.
A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,
And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,
And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!
‘Who [is] simple? let him turn aside hither.’ Whoso lacketh heart: she hath said to him,
Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.
Fed horses — they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.
Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?
And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them.
honourable [is] the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.