²⁷ Can a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes not be burned?

⁹ If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

¹⁰ Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

¹¹ For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

¹² For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

⁴ They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir `the fire', from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.

⁵ On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.

⁶ For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

⁷ They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

⁵ So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!