Proverbs, Chapter 6
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My son, if you have become surety for your fellow man,If you have stricken your hands for a stranger;
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You are snared with the words of your mouth,You are taken with the words of your mouth.
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Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,Seeing you have come into the hand of your fellow man:Go, humble yourself, and importune your fellow man;
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Don't give sleep to your eyes,Nor slumber to your eyelids;
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Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter],And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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Go to the ant, you sluggard;Consider her ways, and be wise:
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Which having no chief,Overseer, or ruler,
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Provides her bread in the summer,And gathers her food in the harvest.
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How long will you sleep, O sluggard?When will you arise out of your sleep?
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[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber,A little folding of the hands to sleep:
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So will your poverty come as a robber,And your want as an armed man.
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[A] worthless man, a man of iniquity,Is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
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Who winks with his eyes, who speaks with his feet,Who makes signs with his fingers;
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In whose heart is perverseness,Who devises evil continually,Who sows discord.
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Therefore will his calamity come suddenly;All of a sudden he will be broken, and that without remedy.
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There are six things which Yahweh hates;Yes, seven which are disgusting to his soul:
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Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,And hands that shed innocent blood;
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A heart that devises wicked purposes,Feet that are swift in running to mischief,
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A false witness who utters lies,And he who sows discord among brothers.
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My son, keep the commandment of your father,And don't forsake the law of your mother:
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Bind them continually on your heart;Tie them about your neck.
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When you walk, it will lead you;When you sleep, it will watch over you;And when you awake, it will talk with you.
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For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is a light;And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
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To keep you from the evil woman,From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
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Don't lust after her beauty in your heart;Neither let her take you with her eyelids.
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For on account of a whore [a man is brought] to a piece of bread;And the adulteress hunts for the precious soul.
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Can a man take fire in his bosom,And his clothes not be burned?
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Or can one walk on hot coals,And his feet not be scorched?
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Men do not despise a thief, if he stealsTo satisfy his soul when he is hungry:
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But if he is found, he will restore sevenfold;He will give all the substance of his house.
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He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding:He who does it destroys his own soul.
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Wounds and dishonor he will get;And his reproach will not be wiped away.
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For jealousy is the rage of a [noble] man;And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
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He will not regard any ransom;Neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
Footnotes
29
has sex with her, literally 'touches her'. See footnote at 1 Corinthians 7:1.
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