Proverbial Adultery

Go to the ant, you sluggard!
Consider her ways and be wise,
Which, having no captain,
Overseer or ruler,
Provides her supplies in the summer,
And gathers her food in the harvest.

Proberbs 6:6-8

"Daddy, what's a sluggard?" We read a chapter of Proverbs every night before bed. Well, most nights. OK, some nights, when we don't get in too late. Tonight was May 6th, so we read Proverbs 6.

"Someone who is lazy."

"Oh."

My son, keep your father’s command,
And do not forsake the law of your mother.

I knew this was coming.

Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
To keep you from the evil woman,
From the flattering tongue of a seductress.
Do not lust after her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her allure you with her eyelids.

How do I explain this without prolonging bedtime...

For by means of a harlot
A man is reduced to a crust of bread;
And an adulteress will prey upon his precious life.
Can a man take fire to his bosom,
And his clothes not be burned?

"Daddy, what's a bosom?"

"It's someone's lap." Whew. Could've asked about 'harlot.'

Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding;
He who does so destroys his own soul.

"Daddy, what's adultery?" Here we go.

"It's when a man is all lovey with somebody besides his own wife." It was the best I could do.

"That's what I thought."