6:1 My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you have struck your hands in a pledge with a stranger, |
6:2 You are snared with the words of your mouth, and you are caught with the words of your mouth— |
6:3 Then my son, do this now, and deliver yourself when you have come into the hand of your friend: go, humble yourself and make your friend sure. |
6:4 Do not give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. |
6:5 Deliver yourself as a gazelle from the hunter's hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. |
6:6 Go to the ant, sluggard; consider her ways and be wise, |
6:7 Who having no guide, overseer, or ruler, |
6:8 Provides her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest. |
6:9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? |
6:10 Yet, a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest; |
6:11 So shall your poverty come as one who travels, and your want like an armed man. |
6:12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth, |
6:13 Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, pointing with his fingers; |
6:14 Perversity is in his heart; he is always planning mischief; he causes discord. |
6:15 Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; instantly he shall be broken without remedy. |
6:16 These six things the LORD hates; yea, seven are an abomination unto Him: |
6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, |
6:18 A heart that plots wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil, |
6:19 A false witness who speaks lies, and he who sows discord among brethren. |
6:20 My son, keep your father's commandments, and do not forsake the instruction of your mother; |
6:21 Bind them continually upon your heart; tie them around your neck. |
6:22 When you go, they shall lead you; when you sleep, they shall keep you; and when you awake, they shall talk with you. |
6:23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life |
6:24 To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. |
6:25 Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; nor let her seduce you with her eyelids |
6:26 For by means of a harlot a man is vanquished to a piece of bread; and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. |
6:27 Can a man take fire to his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? |
6:28 Can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? |
6:29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent. |
6:30 They do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; |
6:31 Yet if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the goods of his house. |
6:32 But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul. |
6:33 He shall get a wound and dishonor; and his shame shall not be wiped away; |
6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. |
6:35 He will not accept any recompense, nor will he be willing even if you multiply the gifts for him. |