Jubilee2000 - Proverbs - 6

6:1  My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

6:2  thou art snared with the words of thy mouth; thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

6:3  Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, for thou hast fallen into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

6:4  Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

6:5  Escape as a roe from the hand [of the hunter] and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

6:6  Go to the ant, thou 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 wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

6:10  [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

6:11  So shall thy poverty come as one that travels and thy want as an armed man.

6:12  A wicked man of Belial walks with a perverse mouth.

6:13  He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;

6:14  there is perversion in his heart; he devises evil continually; he sows discord.

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

6:16  These six [things] does the LORD hate: [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 devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,

6:19  a false witness [that] speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

6:20  My son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother:

6:21  Bind them continually upon thine heart [and] tie them about thy neck.

6:22  When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

6:23  For the commandment [is] fire, and the law [is] light; and reproofs of chastening [are] the way of life,

6:24  to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

6:25  Lust not after her beauty in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eyes.

6:26  For by means of a whorish woman [a man is reduced] to a piece of bread, and the woman will hunt the precious soul of the man.

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

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

6:29  So [is] he that goes in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.

6:30  [Men] do not take a thief lightly, [even] if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

6:31  and once he is taken, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

6:32  [But] whosoever commits adultery with a woman [has a] fault in [his] heart; he [that] does it corrupts his own soul.

6:33  A wound and dishonour shall he get, and his reproach shall never be wiped away.

6:34  For the jealous rage of a man will not spare in the day of vengeance.

6:35  He will not regard any ransom; neither will he want to forgive, though thou givest many bribes.: