CPDV - Proverbs - 6

6:1  My son, if you have taken a pledge on behalf of your friend, then you have bound your hand to an outsider,

6:2  then you are ensnared by the words of your own mouth, and taken captive by your own words.

6:3  Therefore, my son, do what I say, and free yourself, for you have fallen into the hand of your neighbor. Run, hurry, awaken your friend.

6:4  Do not grant sleep to your eyes, nor let your eyelids slumber.

6:5  Rescue yourself like a gazelle from the hand, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

6:6  Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom.

6:7  For though she has no ruler, nor instructor, nor leader,

6:8  she provides meals for herself in the summer, and she gathers at the harvest what she may eat.

6:9  How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep?

6:10  You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep,

6:11  and then destitution will meet with you, like a traveler, and poverty, like an armed man. Yet truly, if you would be diligent, then your harvest will arrive like a fountain, and destitution will flee far from you.

6:12  An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;

6:13  he winks with the eyes, touches with the foot, speaks with the finger.

6:14  With a depraved heart he devises evil, and at all times he sows conflict.

6:15  To this one, his perdition will arrive promptly, and he shall be crushed suddenly: he will no longer have any remedy.

6:16  Six things there are that the Lord hates, and the seventh, his soul detests:

6:17  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

6:18  a heart that devises the most wicked thoughts, feet running swiftly unto evil,

6:19  a deceitful witness bringing forth lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

6:20  My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother.

6:21  Bind them to your heart unceasingly, and encircle them around your throat.

6:22  When you walk, let them keep step with you. When you sleep, let them guard you. And when you keep watch, speak with them.

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

6:24  So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider.

6:25  Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks.

6:26  For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.

6:27  Would a man be able to conceal fire in his bosom, so that his garments would not burn?

6:28  Or could he walk over burning coals, so that his feet would not be burned?

6:29  So also, he who enters to the wife of his neighbor shall not be clean when he touches her.

6:30  Not so great is the fault when someone has stolen. For he steals so as to satisfy a hungry soul.

6:31  Also, if he is apprehended, he shall repay sevenfold and hand over all the substance of his house.

6:32  But whoever is an adulterer, because of the emptiness of his heart, will destroy his own soul.

6:33  He gathers shame and dishonor to himself, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.

6:34  For the jealousy and fury of the husband will not spare him on the day of vindication,

6:35  nor will he agree to the pleadings of anyone, nor will he accept, as repayment, a multitude of gifts.