Proverbs Chapter 6
| 1 | My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, | 2 | Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. | 3 | Do this now, my son, deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. | 4 | Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. | 5 | Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. | 6 | Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: | 7 | Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, | 8 | Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. | 9 | How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? | 10 | Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: | 11 | So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. | 12 | A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. | 13 | He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; | 14 | Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. | 15 | Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. | 16 | These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: | 17 | A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, | 18 | An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, | 19 | A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. | 20 | My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: | 21 | Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. | 22 | When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. | 23 | For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: | 24 | To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. | 25 | Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. | 26 | For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. | 27 | Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? | 28 | Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? | 29 | So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. | 30 | Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; | 31 | But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. | 32 | But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. | 33 | A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. | 34 | For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. | 35 | He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. |