LITV - Proverbs - 6

6:1  My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you struck your palms with an alien,

6:2  you are snared with the words of your mouth; you are captured with the words of your own mouth.

6:3  My son, do this then, and deliver yourself when you come into the palm of your friend: go lower yourself and be bold to your friend.

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

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

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

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

6:8  provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

6:9  How long will you lie down, O lazy man? When will you arise out of your sleep?

6:10  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down;

6:11  So shall your poverty come as one walking, and your need 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, teaching with his fingers.

6:14  Perversity is in his heart; he is plotting evil at every time, he sends out strife.

6:15  On account of this, calamity shall come suddenly; he is broken quickly and there is no healing.

6:16  These six things Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul;

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

6:18  a heart that plots evil plans, feet hurrying to run to mischief,

6:19  a false witness who breathes lies, and he who causes strife among brothers.

6:20  My son, keep your father's commands, and do not forsake the law of your mother.

6:21  Tie them to your heart forever; tie them around your neck.

6:22  When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall watch over you; and when you awaken, it will meditate with you.

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

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

6:25  Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, and do not let her take you with her eyelids,

6:26  For on account of a woman, a harlot, a man comes to the last loaf of bread, and another man's wife hunts for the precious soul.

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

6:28  Or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be burned?

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

6:30  They do not despise a thief, if he steals to fill his appetite when he is hungry.

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

6:32  He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; he who does it is a destroyer of his own soul.

6:33  He shall find a wound and dishonor, and his shame shall not be wiped away.

6:34  For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance,

6:35  He will not lift up the face of every ransom, nor will he consent if you multiply the bribes.