Proverbs Chapter 6 Back Next{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, since 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.
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