The Proverbs (WEB)

6:1 My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor,
      If you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

 ^6:2You are trapped by the words of your mouth.
      You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

 ^6:3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
      Seeing you have come into the hand of your neighbor.

 Go, humble yourself.
      Press your plea with your neighbor.

 ^6:4Give no sleep to your eyes,
      Nor slumber to your eyelids.

 ^6:5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
      Like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

  ^6:6Go to the ant, you sluggard.
      Consider her ways, and be wise;

 ^6:7Which having no chief,
      Overseer, or ruler,

 ^6:8Provides her bread in the summer,
      And gathers her food in the harvest.

 ^6:9How long will you sleep, sluggard?
      When will you arise out of your sleep?

 ^6:10A little sleep, a little slumber,
      A little folding of the hands to sleep:

 ^6:11So your poverty will come as a robber,
      And your scarcity as an armed man.

 ^6:12A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
      Is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

 ^6:13Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,
      Who motions with his fingers;

 ^6:14In whose heart is perverseness,
      Who devises evil continually,
      Who always sows discord.

 ^6:15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.
      He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

 ^6:16There are six things which Yahweh hates;
      Yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

 ^6:17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
      Hands that shed innocent blood;

 ^6:18A heart that devises wicked schemes,
      Feet that are swift in running to mischief,

 ^6:19A false witness who utters lies,
      And he who sows discord among brothers.

  ^6:20My son, keep your father's commandment,
      And don't forsake your mother's teaching.

 ^6:21Bind them continually on your heart.
      Tie them around your neck.

 ^6:22When you walk, it will lead you.
      When you sleep, it will watch over you.
      When you awake, it will talk with you.

 ^6:23For the commandment is a lamp,
      And the law is light.
      Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

 ^6:24To keep you from the immoral woman,
      From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

 ^6:25Don't lust after her beauty in your heart,
      Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

 ^6:26For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.
      The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

 ^6:27Can a man scoop fire into his lap,
      And his clothes not be burned?

 ^6:28Or can one walk on hot coals,
      And his feet not be scorched?

 ^6:29So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife.
      Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

 ^6:30Men don't despise a thief,
      If he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

 ^6:31But if he be found, he shall restore seven times.
      He shall give all the wealth of his house.

 ^6:32He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.
      He who does it destroys his own soul.

 ^6:33He will get wounds and dishonor.
      His reproach will not be wiped away.

 ^6:34For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband.
      He won't spare in the day of vengeance.

 ^6:35He won't regard any ransom,
      Neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

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