| 6 | Proverbs | ||
| 1 | My son, if you have become surety for your neighbour, have given your pledge for a stranger; | More warnings. Pr.6.1-19 | |
| 2 | if you are snared in the utterance of your lips, caught in the words of your mouth; | ||
| 3 | then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbour's power: go, hasten, and importune your neighbour. | ||
| 4 | Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; | ||
| 5 | save yourself like a gazelle from 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, | ||
| 8 | she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance 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 vagabond, and want like an armed man. | ||
| 12 | A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, | ||
| 13 | winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger, | ||
| 14 | with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; | ||
| 15 | therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. | ||
| 16 | There are six things which Yahweh hates, seven which 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 a man who sows discord among brothers. | ||
| 20 | My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching. | Warning against adultery. Pr.6.20-7.5 | |
| 21 | Bind them upon your heart always; tie them about 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. | ||
| 23 | For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, | ||
| 24 | to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress. | ||
| 25 | Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; | ||
| 26 | for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life. | ||
| 27 | Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? | ||
| 28 | Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched? | ||
| 29 | So is he who goes in to his neighbour's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished. | ||
| 30 | Do not men despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry? | ||
| 31 | And if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house. | ||
| 32 | He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself. | ||
| 33 | Wounds and dishonour will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away. | ||
| 34 | For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge. | ||
| 35 | He will accept no compensation, nor be appeased though you multiply gifts. | ||
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