Proverbs 6
6
Financial Entanglements
1My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor#6:1 Or friend
or entered into an agreement with#6:1 Lit or slapped hands for a stranger,#Pr 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 22:26; 27:13
2you have been snared by the words of your mouth —
trapped by the words from your mouth.
3Do this, then, my son, and free yourself,
for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power:
Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.
4Don’t give sleep to your eyes
or slumber to your eyelids.#Ps 132:4
5Escape like a gazelle from a hunter,#6:5 Lit hand
like a bird from a hunter’s trap.#6:5 Lit hand#Ps 91:3; 124:7
Laziness
6Go to the ant,#Pr 30:24–25 you slacker!#Pr 10:26; 13:4; 20:4; 26:16
Observe its ways and become wise.
7Without leader, administrator, or ruler,
8it prepares its provisions in summer;
it gathers its food during harvest.#Pr 10:5; 30:25
9How long will you stay in bed, you slacker?
When will you get up from your sleep?
10A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the arms to rest,
11and your poverty will come like a robber,
your need, like a bandit.#Pr 20:13; 24:33–34; 26:14; Ec 4:5
The Malicious Man
12A worthless person,#1Sm 25:25; Pr 16:27; 19:28 a wicked man
goes around speaking dishonestly,#Pr 4:24
13winking#Ps 35:19; Pr 10:10; 16:30 his eyes, signaling with his feet,
and gesturing with his fingers.
14He always plots evil#Pr 3:29; Mc 2:1 with perversity in his heart;
he stirs up trouble.#Pr 6:19; 16:27–28; 28:25
15Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly;
he will be shattered instantly, beyond recovery.#2Ch 36:16; Pr 24:22; 29:1; Is 30:13–14; Jr 19:11
What the Lord Hates
16The Lord hates six things;
in fact, seven are detestable to him:
17arrogant eyes,#Ps 18:27; Pr 21:4; 30:13 a lying tongue,#Ps 31:18; 120:2; Pr 12:22; 17:7
hands that shed innocent blood,#Dt 19:10; Pr 1:16; Is 1:15; 59:7
18a heart that plots wicked schemes,#Gn 6:5
feet eager to run to evil,#Pr 1:16
19a lying witness who gives false testimony,#Ex 20:16; Ps 27:12; Pr 12:17; 14:5,25
and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.#Pr 6:14; 16:27–28; 28:25
Warning against Adultery
20My son, keep your father’s command,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.#Pr 1:8; 31:1
21Always bind them to your heart;
tie them around your neck.#Pr 1:9; 3:3; 7:3
22When you walk here and there, they will guide you;
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
when you wake up, they will talk to you.
23For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,#Ps 119:105
and corrective discipline is the way to life.#Pr 3:1–2; 4:4; 7:2; 19:16
24They will protect you from an evil woman,#6:24 LXX reads from a married woman
from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.#Pr 7:5
25Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty#Mt 5:28
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.#Sg 4:9
26For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,#6:26 Or On account of a prostitute, one is left with only a loaf of bread
but the wife of another man#6:26 Lit but a wife of a man goes after a precious life.#Pr 2:18–19; 7:21–23,27; 23:27–28; Ezk 13:18
27Can a man embrace fire
and his clothes not be burned?
28Can a man walk on burning coals
without scorching his feet?
29So it is with the one who sleeps with
another man’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.#Pr 16:5
30People don’t despise the thief if he steals
to satisfy himself when he is hungry.#Jr 49:9; Ob 5
31Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much;#Ex 22:1–4; Ps 79:12
he must give up all the wealth in his house.
32The one who commits adultery#6:32 Lit commits adultery with a woman lacks sense;
whoever does so destroys himself.#Pr 7:22–23
33He will get a beating#6:33 Or plague and dishonor,
and his disgrace will never be removed.
34For jealousy enrages a husband,#Pr 27:4; Sg 8:6
and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
35He will not be appeased by anything
or be persuaded by lavish bribes.
Currently Selected:
Proverbs 6: CSB
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
© 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
Proverbs 6
6
1My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbour,
if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,
2 you are trapped by the words of your mouth;
you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.
3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
since you have come into the hand of your neighbour.
Go, humble yourself.
Press your plea with your neighbour.
4 Give no sleep to your eyes,
nor slumber to your eyelids.
5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard.
Consider her ways, and be wise;
7which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
8 provides her bread in the summer,
and gathers her food in the harvest.
9 How long will you sleep, sluggard?
When will you arise out of your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to sleep—
11 so your poverty will come as a robber,
and your scarcity as an armed man.
12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
13who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,
who motions with his fingers,
14 in whose heart is perverseness,
who devises evil continually,
who always sows discord.
15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.
He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
16 There are six things which the LORD hates;
yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
17arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are swift in running to mischief,
19 a false witness who utters lies,
and he who sows discord amongst brothers.
20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
21 Bind them continually on your heart.
Tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, it will lead you.
When you sleep, it will watch over you.
When you awake, it will talk with you.
23 For the commandment is a lamp,
and the law is light.
Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
24 to keep you from the immoral woman,
from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart,
neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.
The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap,
and his clothes not be burnt?
28 Or can one walk on hot coals,
and his feet not be scorched?
29 So is he who goes in to his neighbour’s wife.
Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
30 Men don’t despise a thief
if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry,
31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times.
He shall give all the wealth of his house.
32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.
He who does it destroys his own soul.
33 He will get wounds and dishonour.
His reproach will not be wiped away.
34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband.
He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.
35 He won’t regard any ransom,
neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
Currently Selected:
:
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
PUBLIC DOMAIN. "World English Bible" is trademark of eBible.org.