6 ¹ My son, if you have become surety for your neighbour,
have given your pledge for a stranger;
6 ² if you are snared in the utterance of your lips,
caught in the words of your mouth;
6 ³ then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into your neighbour's power:
go, hasten, and importune your neighbour.
6 ⁴ Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
6 ⁵ save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter,
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

6 ⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard;
consider her ways, and be wise.
6 ⁷ Without having any chief, officer or ruler, 6 ⁸ she prepares her food in summer,
and gathers her sustenance in harvest.
6 ⁹ How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?
6 ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
6 ¹¹ and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond,
and want like an armed man.

6 ¹² A worthless person, a wicked man,
goes about with crooked speech,
6 ¹³ winks with his eyes,
scrapes with his feet,
points with his finger,
6 ¹⁴ with perverted heart devises evil,
continually sowing discord;
6 ¹⁵ therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;
in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

6 ¹⁶ There are six things which Yahweh hates,
seven which are an abomination to him:
6 ¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
6 ¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
6 ¹⁹ a false witness who breathes out lies,
and a man who sows discord among brothers.