6Proverbs 6

1My son, if you be surety for your friend, if you have stricken your hand with a stranger,Select Proverbs 6:1

2You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.Select Proverbs 6:2

3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you are come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.Select Proverbs 6:3

4Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.Select Proverbs 6:4

5Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. ¶Select Proverbs 6:5

6Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:Select Proverbs 6:6

7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,Select Proverbs 6:7

8Provides her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.Select Proverbs 6:8

9How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?Select Proverbs 6:9

10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:Select Proverbs 6:10

11So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man. ¶Select Proverbs 6:11

12A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a fraudulent mouth.Select Proverbs 6:12

13He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;Select Proverbs 6:13

14Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.Select Proverbs 6:14

15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. ¶Select Proverbs 6:15

16These six things does the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination to him:Select Proverbs 6:16

17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,Select Proverbs 6:17

18An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,Select Proverbs 6:18

19A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers. ¶Select Proverbs 6:19

20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:Select Proverbs 6:20

21Bind them continually on your heart, and tie them about your neck.Select Proverbs 6:21

22When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you wake, it shall talk with you.Select Proverbs 6:22

23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:Select Proverbs 6:23

24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.Select Proverbs 6:24

25Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.Select Proverbs 6:25

26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.Select Proverbs 6:26

27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?Select Proverbs 6:27

28Can one go on hot coals, and his feet not be burned?Select Proverbs 6:28

29So he that goes in to his neighbor’s wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.Select Proverbs 6:29

30Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;Select Proverbs 6:30

31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.Select Proverbs 6:31

32But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.Select Proverbs 6:32

33A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.Select Proverbs 6:33

34For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.Select Proverbs 6:34

35He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.Select Proverbs 6:35