| 6:1 |
My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; |
| 6:2 |
You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth. |
| 6:3 |
Do 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. |
| 6:4 |
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. |
| 6:5 |
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. |
| 6:6 |
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; |
| 6:7 |
which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, |
| 6:8 |
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. |
| 6:9 |
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? |
| 6:10 |
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: |
| 6:11 |
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man. |
| 6:12 |
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth; |
| 6:13 |
who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers; |
| 6:14 |
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord. |
| 6:15 |
Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy. |
| 6:16 |
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: |
| 6:17 |
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood; |
| 6:18 |
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, |
| 6:19 |
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers. |
| 6:20 |
My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching. |
| 6:21 |
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck. |
| 6:22 |
When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you. |
| 6:23 |
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, |
| 6:24 |
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue. |
| 6:25 |
Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. |
| 6:26 |
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life. |
| 6:27 |
Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned? |
| 6:28 |
Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? |
| 6:29 |
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished. |
| 6:30 |
Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry: |
| 6:31 |
but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house. |
| 6:32 |
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul. |
| 6:33 |
He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away. |
| 6:34 |
For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in the day of vengeance. |
| 6:35 |
He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts. |
