Proverbs 6
6
Practical Admonitions
1My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor,
if you have bound yourself to another,#6.1 Or a stranger
2you are snared by the utterance of your lips,#6.2 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb the words of your mouth
caught by the words of your mouth.
3So do this, my child, and save yourself,
for you have come into your neighbor's power:
go, hurry,#6.3 Or humble yourself and plead with your neighbor.
4Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
5save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter,#6.5 Cn: Heb from the hand
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6Go to the ant, you lazybones;
consider its ways, and be wise.
7Without having any chief
or officer or ruler,
8it prepares its food in summer,
and gathers its sustenance in harvest.
9How long will you lie there, O lazybones?
When will you rise from your sleep?
10A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
11and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want, like an armed warrior.
12A scoundrel and a villain
goes around with crooked speech,
13winking the eyes, shuffling the feet,
pointing the fingers,
14with perverted mind devising evil,
continually sowing discord;
15on such a one calamity will descend suddenly;
in a moment, damage beyond repair.
16There are six things that the Lord hates,
seven that are an abomination to him:
17haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
18a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that hurry to run to evil,
19a lying witness who testifies falsely,
and one who sows discord in a family.
20My child, keep your father's commandment,
and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
21Bind them upon your heart always;
tie them around your neck.
22When you walk, they#6.22 Heb it will lead you;
when you lie down, they#6.22 Heb it will watch over you;
and when you awake, they#6.22 Heb it will talk with you.
23For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24to preserve you from the wife of another,#6.24 Gk: MT the evil woman
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
25Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
26for a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread,#6.26 Cn Compare Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb for because of a harlot to a piece of bread
but the wife of another stalks a man's very life.
27Can fire be carried in the bosom
without burning one's clothes?
28Or can one walk on hot coals
without scorching the feet?
29So is he who sleeps with his neighbor's wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.
30Thieves are not despised who steal only
to satisfy their appetite when they are hungry.
31Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold;
they will forfeit all the goods of their house.
32But he who commits adultery has no sense;
he who does it destroys himself.
33He will get wounds and dishonor,
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
34For jealousy arouses a husband's fury,
and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge.
35He will accept no compensation,
and refuses a bribe no matter how great.
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Proverbs 6
6
1My son, if thou be surety for thy friend,
If thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth,
Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself,
When thou art come into the hand of thy friend;
Go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
4Give not sleep to thine eyes,
Nor slumber to thine eyelids.
5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter,
And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
Consider her ways, and be wise:
7Which having no guide,
Overseer, or ruler,
8Provideth her meat in the summer,
And gathereth her food in the harvest.
9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?
When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to sleep:
11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,
And thy want as an armed man.
12A naughty person, a wicked man,
Walketh with a froward mouth.
13He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet,
He teacheth with his fingers;
14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually;
He soweth discord.
15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;
Suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
16These six things doth the LORD hate:
Yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17A proud look, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,
18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
Feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19A false witness that speaketh lies,
And he that soweth discord among brethren.
20My son, keep thy father's commandment,
And forsake not the law of thy mother:
21Bind them continually upon thine heart,
And tie them about thy neck.
22When thou goest, it shall lead thee;
When thou sleepest, it shall keep thee;
And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light;
And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
24To keep thee from the evil woman,
From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart;
Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread:
And the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
27Can a man take fire in his bosom,
And his clothes not be burned?
28Can one go upon hot coals,
And his feet not be burned?
29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife;
Whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal
To satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold;
He shall give all the substance of his house.
32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding:
He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
33A wound and dishonour shall he get;
And his reproach shall not be wiped away.
34For jealousy is the rage of a man:
Therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
35He will not regard any ransom;
Neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
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