Bible in Basic English
"So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment."
— Proverbs 6:29, Bible in Basic English
“So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.”
For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?
Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?
So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:
But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.
He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.