Proverbs 6:1
My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,
Proverbs 6:2
Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,
Proverbs 6:3
Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,
Proverbs 6:4
Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,
Proverbs 6:5
Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
Proverbs 6:6
Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;
Proverbs 6:7
Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,
Proverbs 6:8
She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.
Proverbs 6:9
Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?
Proverbs 6:10
A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,
Proverbs 6:11
And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs 6:12
A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,
Proverbs 6:13
Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,
Proverbs 6:14
Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
Proverbs 6:15
Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken--and no healing.
Proverbs 6:16
These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul.
Proverbs 6:17
Eyes high--tongues false--And hands shedding innocent blood--
Proverbs 6:18
A heart devising thoughts of vanity--Feet hasting to run to evil--
Proverbs 6:19
A false witness who doth breathe out lies--And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
Proverbs 6:20
Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
Proverbs 6:21
Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.
Proverbs 6:22
In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked--it talketh with thee.
Proverbs 6:23
For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,
Proverbs 6:24
To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Proverbs 6:25
Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.
Proverbs 6:26
For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
Proverbs 6:27
Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?
Proverbs 6:28
Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?
Proverbs 6:29
So is he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
Proverbs 6:30
They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,
Proverbs 6:31
And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.
Proverbs 6:32
He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.
Proverbs 6:33
A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,
Proverbs 6:34
For jealousy is the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.
Proverbs 6:35
He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!