Proverbs 6

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

^2 ^Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

^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,

^4 ^Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

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

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

^7 ^Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,

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

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

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

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

^12 ^A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,

^13 ^Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,

^14 ^Frowardness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

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

^16 ^These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven [are] abominations to His soul.

^17 ^Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

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

^19 ^A false witness [who] doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

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

^21 ^Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.

^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.

^23 ^For a lamp [is] the command, And the law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,

23For the command is a lamp, And the Torah a light,See Psa. 119:105 And reproofs of discipline a way of life,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

^32 ^He who committeth adultery [with] a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

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

^34 ^For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.

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