Proverbs 6

¹My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
have given your pledge for a stranger,

²if you are snared in the words of your mouth,
caught in the words of your mouth,

³then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.

⁴ Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;

⁵save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard;
consider her ways, and be wise.

⁷ Without having any chief,
officer, or ruler,

⁸she prepares her bread in summer
and gathers her food in harvest.

⁹ How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?

¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,

¹¹ and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.

¹² A worthless person, a wicked man,
goes about with crooked speech,

¹³ winks with his eyes, signals with his feet,
points with his finger,

¹⁴with perverted heart devises evil,
continually sowing discord;

¹⁵therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;
in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

¹⁶There are six things that the Lord hates,
seven that are an abomination to him:

¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,

¹⁹ a false witness who breathes out lies,
and one who sows discord among brothers.

²⁰ My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

²¹ Bind them on your heart always;
tie them around your neck.

²² When you walk, they will lead you;
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
and when you awake, they will talk with you.

²³For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

²⁴to preserve you from the evil woman,
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

²⁵ Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;

²⁶for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,
but a married woman hunts down a precious life.

²⁷Can a man carry fire next to his chest
and his clothes not be burned?

²⁸Or can one walk on hot coals
and his feet not be scorched?

²⁹So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
none who touches her will go unpunished.

³⁰People do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,

³¹but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;
he will give all the goods of his house.

³²He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.

³³He will get wounds and dishonor,
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.

³⁴For jealousy makes a man furious,
and he will not spare when he takes revenge.

³⁵He will accept no compensation;
he will refuse though you multiply gifts.

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