Pro6:1 My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger;
Pro6:2 if you are snared in the utterance of your lips, caught in the words of your mouth;
Pro6:3 then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hasten, and importune 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, O sluggard;consider her ways, and be wise.
Pro6:7 Without having any chief, officer or ruler,
Pro6:8 she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.
Pro6:9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise 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 vagabond, and want like an armed man.
Pro6:12 A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
Pro6:13 winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger,
Pro6:14 with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;
Pro6:15 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
Pro6:16 There are six things which the LORD hates, seven which 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 make haste to run to evil,
Pro6:19 a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers.
Pro6:20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
Pro6:21 Bind them upon your heart always;tie them about 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 evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.
Pro6:25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
Pro6:26 for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.
Pro6:27 Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?
Pro6:28 Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
Pro6:29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;none who touches her will go unpunished.
Pro6:30 Do not men despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry?
Pro6:31 And if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;he will give all the goods of his house.
Pro6:32 He who commits adultery has no sense;he who does it destroys himself.
Pro6:33 Wounds and dishonor will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
Pro6:34 For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
Pro6:35 He will accept no compensation, nor be appeased though you multiply gifts.