MKJV - Proverbs - 6

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

6:2  you are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

6:3  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  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down;

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

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

6:13  winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, teaching with his fingers;

6:14  perversity is in his heart; he is always planning mischief; he causes fighting.

6:15  Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; he is quickly broken, and there is no healing.

6:16  These six the LORD 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 wicked plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,

6:19  a false witness who speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers.

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

6:21  bind them upon your heart forever, tie them around your neck.

6:22  When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it 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 take you with her eyelids.

6:26  For by means of a harlot a man comes to a piece of bread; and another man's wife will hunt for the precious life.

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 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  but if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the goods of his house.

6:32  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 he 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 take any ransom; nor will he be willing if you multiply the gifts.