LEB - Proverbs - 6

6:1  My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, if you have bound ⌞yourself⌟ to the stranger,

6:2  if you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, if you are caught by the sayings of your mouth,

6:3  do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into ⌞the palm of your neighbor’s hand⌟: Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.

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

6:5  Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

6:6  Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise.

6:7  It has no chief, officer, or ruler.

6:8  In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance.

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

6:10  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest—

6:11  like a ⌞robber⌟ shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.

6:12  A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with ⌞deceitful speech⌟.

6:13  Winking in his eye, shuffling in his foot, pointing in his fingers,

6:14  perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.

6:15  Upon ⌞such a man⌟, suddenly shall his calamity come; in a moment he will be damaged and there is no healing.

6:16  There are six things Yahweh hates, and seven things are abominations of his soul:

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

6:18  a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil,

6:19  a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers.

6:20  My child, keep the commandment of your father, and do not disregard the instruction of your mother.

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

6:22  ⌞When you walk⌟, she will lead you, ⌞When you lie down⌟, she will watch over you, and when you awake, she will converse with you.

6:23  For like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light, and the way of life is the reproof of discipline,

6:24  in order to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of the tongue of ⌞an adulteress⌟.

6:25  Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.

6:26  For the price of a woman, a prostitute, is the price of a loaf of bread, but the ⌞woman belonging to a man⌟ hunts precious life.

6:27  Can a man carry fire in his lap, and his clothes not burn?

6:28  If a man walks upon the hot coals, will his feet not be burned?

6:29  Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished.

6:30  People do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry.

6:31  But if he is found, he will pay sevenfold, every possession of his house he shall give.

6:32  He who commits adultery with a woman lacks ⌞sense⌟, he destroys himself who does it.

6:33  A wound and dishonor he will find, and his disgrace will not be wiped out.

6:34  For jealousy is the fury of a husband, and he will not show restraint on the day of revenge.

6:35  He will not accept ⌞any compensation⌟, and he will not be willing, though the bribe is large.