UKJV - Proverbs - 6

6:1  My son, if you be guarantor for your friend, if you have stricken your hand 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  Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you are come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.

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

6:5  Deliver yourself 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, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

6:7  Which 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  Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

6:11  So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your lack as an armed man.

6:12  A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.

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

6:14  Perverseness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

6:15  Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he 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  An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

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

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

6:21  Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them about 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  Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

6:26  For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress 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 he that goes in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.

6:30  Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

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

6:32  But whoso commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.

6:33  A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be 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 regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.