| Prov. 6:1 |
My son, if you have become a surety for your neighbor, / If you have given your hands as a pledge for a stranger, |
| Prov. 6:2 |
You are snared by the words of your mouth; / You are caught by the words of your mouth. |
| Prov. 6:3 |
Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, / Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor: / Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor. |
| Prov. 6:4 |
Do not give sleep to your eyes, / Nor slumber to your eyelids. |
| Prov. 6:5 |
Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the [hunter's] hand / And like a bird from the fowler's hand. |
| Prov. 6:6 |
Go to the ant, you sluggard; / Consider its ways, and be wise, |
| Prov. 6:7 |
Which, having no chief, / Officer, or ruler, |
| Prov. 6:8 |
Prepares its food in summer / [And] gathers its sustenance in the harvest. |
| Prov. 6:9 |
How long, sluggard, will you lie [there?] / When will you arise from your sleep? |
| Prov. 6:10 |
A little sleep, a little slumber, / A little folding of the hands to rest, |
| Prov. 6:11 |
And your poverty will come [upon you] like a robber, / And your want, like an armed man. |
| Prov. 6:12 |
A worthless man, a wicked man, / Goes around with a perverse mouth, |
| Prov. 6:13 |
Winking with his eyes, signaling with his feet, / Pointing with his fingers; |
| Prov. 6:14 |
With perverseness in his heart, he is devising evil continually; / He injects discord. |
| Prov. 6:15 |
Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; / In a moment he will be broken, and there will be no remedy. |
| Prov. 6:16 |
There are six things that Jehovah hates; / Indeed, seven that are an abomination to His soul: |
| Prov. 6:17 |
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, / And hands that shed innocent blood, |
| Prov. 6:18 |
A heart that devises wicked schemes, / Feet that hurry to run to evil, |
| Prov. 6:19 |
A false witness who utters lies, / And one who injects discord among brothers. |
| Prov. 6:20 |
My son, keep the commandment of your father, / And do not reject the teaching of your mother; |
| Prov. 6:21 |
Bind them continually on your heart; / Tie them around your neck. |
| Prov. 6:22 |
When you walk about, it will guide you, / When you lie down, it will watch over you; / And when you awake, it will talk with you. |
| Prov. 6:23 |
For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, / And the reproofs of instruction are the way of life, |
| Prov. 6:24 |
To keep you from the evil woman, / From the smooth tongue of the adulteress. |
| Prov. 6:25 |
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, / Nor let her catch you with her eyelids; |
| Prov. 6:26 |
For the price of a harlot is [a loaf of ] bread, / But the wife of [another] man hunts for the precious soul. |
| Prov. 6:27 |
Can a man take fire in his bosom / And his clothes not be burned? |
| Prov. 6:28 |
Can a man walk on hot coals / And his feet not be scorched? |
| Prov. 6:29 |
So [it is with] him who goes in to his neighbor's wife; / No one who touches her will be unpunished. |
| Prov. 6:30 |
The thief is not despised if he steals / To satisfy himself when he is hungry; |
| Prov. 6:31 |
But if he is found out, he shall restore sevenfold; / He must give over all the substance of his house. |
| Prov. 6:32 |
He who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense; / He who does it destroys his own soul. |
| Prov. 6:33 |
He will find wounds and dishonor, / And his reproach will not be wiped away. |
| Prov. 6:34 |
For jealousy is the rage of a man, / And he will not spare in the day of vengeance. |
| Prov. 6:35 |
He will not regard any ransom, / Nor will he be content if you give [him] great gifts. |