Proverbs 6

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

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