ABP - Proverbs - 6

6:1  O son, if you should guarantee a loan for your friend, you shall deliver up your hand to the enemy.

6:2  [6snare 1For 5are a strong 2a man's 3own 4lips], and he is captured by the words of his own mouth.

6:3  Do, O son, what I give charge to you, and preserve yourself! [5you come 1For 6into 7the hands 8of evils 2on account of 3your 4friend]. Be not enfeebled! but you provoke even your friend whom you guaranteed a loan.

6:4  You should not give sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eyelids,

6:5  so that you should escape as a doe from nooses, and as a fowl from out of a snare.

6:6  Be as the ant, O lazy one, and be jealous beholding his ways; and become as that one -- wiser!

6:7  For to that one there is no farm possession, nor [2one compelling him 1is he having], nor [2under 3a master 1is he being].

6:8  He prepares [3of summer 1the 2nourishment], [3much 1and also 4in 5the 6harvest 2he prepares] for the fete.

6:9  For how long, O lazy one, do you recline? And when [2from out of 3sleep 1will you arise]?

6:10  A little then to sleep, and a little you sit down, and a little you slumber, and a little you fold your arms with hands to the breasts.

6:11  So then [2comes upon 3you 4as 5an evil 6traveler 1poverty]; and lack as a good runner.

6:12  A man, a fool and a lawbreaker, shall go by ways not good.

6:13  And the same beckons with the eyes, and makes signs with the foot, and teaches with the beckoning of his fingers.

6:14  [3being perverted 1And 2a heart] contrives evils; at all time such a one [2disturbances 1concocts] to a city.

6:15  On account of this [3suddenly 2comes 1his destruction]; severance and [2destruction 1irretrievable].

6:16  For he rejoices in all things which [3detests 1the 2 lord]; and he is destroyed because of uncleanness of soul --

6:17  [2eye 1an insulting], [2tongue 1an unjust], hands pouring out [2blood 1righteous],

6:18  and a heart contriving [2devices 1evil], and feet hurrying to do evil.

6:19  [3kindles 4lying 2witness 1An unjust], and brings in addition judicial cases between brethren.

6:20  O son, guard the laws of your father! and you should not thrust away the rules of your mother.

6:21  But affix them upon your soul always, and bind them with a cord around your neck!

6:22  When ever you should walk, bring it, and [2with 3you 1let it be]! And when ever you should sleep, let it guard you! that in arising it should converse together with you.

6:23  For [3is a lamp 1the commandment 2of the law], and a light, and a way of life, and reproof, and instruction;

6:24  to guard you from [2woman 1a married], and from the distraction [2tongue 1of a strange].

6:25  O son, let not [3overcome you 2of beauty 1the desire], nor [3be caught 1your 2eyes] nor seized by her eyelids.

6:26  For the value of a harlot is as much as even one bread loaf; and a woman [4of men 2the precious 3souls 1ensnares].

6:27  Shall anyone tie up fire in his bosom, and his garments not incinerate?

6:28  Or shall anyone walk upon coals of fire, and his feet shall not incinerate.

6:29  So the one entering to [2woman 1a married]; he shall not be acquitted, nor any one touching her.

6:30  It is not a wonder if any be captured stealing; for he steals that he should fill up his soul when hungering;

6:31  but if he should be captured he shall pay seven-fold, and [4all 5his possessions 3by giving 1shall rescue 2himself].

6:32  But the adulterer, through lack of sense, [2destruction 3for his soul 1procures].

6:33  Both griefs and dishonor he suffers, and his scorn shall not be wiped away into the eon.

6:34  [4is full 1For 5of zeal 2the rage 3of her husband]; he will not spare in the day of judgment.

6:35  He will not bargain for any ransom of his hatred, nor part by many gifts.