AFV2020 - Proverbs - 6

6:1  My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you have struck your hands in a pledge with a stranger,

6:2  You are snared with the words of your mouth, and you are caught with the words of your mouth—

6:3  Then my son, do this now, and deliver yourself when you have come into the hand of your friend: go, humble yourself and make your friend sure.

6:4  Do not give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

6:5  Deliver yourself as a gazelle from the hunter's hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

6:6  Go to the ant, sluggard; consider her ways and be wise,

6:7  Who having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

6:8  Provides her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.

6:9  How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

6:10  Yet, a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest;

6:11  So shall your poverty come as one who travels, and your want like an armed man.

6:12  A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

6:13  Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, pointing with his fingers;

6:14  Perversity is in his heart; he is always planning mischief; he causes discord.

6:15  Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; instantly he shall be broken without remedy.

6:16  These six things the LORD hates; yea, seven are an abomination unto Him:

6:17  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

6:18  A heart that plots wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,

6:19  A false witness who speaks lies, and he who sows discord among brethren.

6:20  My son, keep your father's commandments, and do not forsake the instruction of your mother;

6:21  Bind them continually upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

6:22  When you go, they shall lead you; when you sleep, they shall keep you; and when you awake, they shall talk with you.

6:23  For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life

6:24  To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

6:25  Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; nor let her seduce you with her eyelids

6:26  For by means of a harlot a man is vanquished to a piece of bread; and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

6:27  Can a man take fire to his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

6:28  Can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

6:29  So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.

6:30  They do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

6:31  Yet if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the goods of his house.

6:32  But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul.

6:33  He shall get a wound and dishonor; and his shame shall not be wiped away;

6:34  For jealousy is the rage of a man; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

6:35  He will not accept any recompense, nor will he be willing even if you multiply the gifts for him.