Pro6:1 My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to another,
Pro6:2 you are snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth.
Pro6:3 So do this, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hurry, and plead with your neighbor.
Pro6:4 Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
Pro6:5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Pro6:6 Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
Pro6:7 Without having any chief or officer or ruler,
Pro6:8 it prepares its food in summer, and gathers its sustenance in harvest.
Pro6:9 How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?
Pro6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
Pro6:11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.
Pro6:12 A scoundrel and a villain goes around with crooked speech,
Pro6:13 winking the eyes, shuffling the feet, pointing the fingers,
Pro6:14 with perverted mind devising evil, continually sowing discord;
Pro6:15 on such a one calamity will descend suddenly; in a moment, damage beyond repair.
Pro6:16 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
Pro6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro6:18 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that hurry to run to evil,
Pro6:19 a lying witness who testifies falsely, and one who sows discord in a family.
Pro6:20 My child, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
Pro6:21 Bind them upon your heart always; tie them around your neck.
Pro6:22 When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.
Pro6:23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
Pro6:24 to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Pro6:25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
Pro6:26 for a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man's very life.
Pro6:27 Can fire be carried in the bosom without burning one's clothes?
Pro6:28 Or can one walk on hot coals without scorching the feet?
Pro6:29 So is he who sleeps with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Pro6:30 Thieves are not despised who steal only to satisfy their appetite when they are hungry.
Pro6:31 Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold; they will forfeit all the goods of their house.
Pro6:32 But he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
Pro6:33 He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
Pro6:34 For jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge.
Pro6:35 He will accept no compensation, and refuses a bribe no matter how great.