YLT - Proverbs - 6

6:1  My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,

6:2  Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

6:3  Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,

6:4  Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

6:5  Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

6:6  Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

6:7  Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,

6:8  She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.

6:9  Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?

6:10  A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,

6:11  And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

6:12  A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,

6:13  Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,

6:14  Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

6:15  Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken--and no healing.

6:16  These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul.

6:17  Eyes high--tongues false--And hands shedding innocent blood--

6:18  A heart devising thoughts of vanity--Feet hasting to run to evil--

6:19  A false witness who doth breathe out lies--And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

6:20  Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

6:21  Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.

6:22  In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked--it talketh with thee.

6:23  For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,

6:24  To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

6:25  Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

6:26  For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

6:27  Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?

6:28  Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?

6:29  So is he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.

6:30  They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,

6:31  And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.

6:32  He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

6:33  A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,

6:34  For jealousy is the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.

6:35  He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!