6Proverbs 6

1My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,Select Proverbs 6:1

2Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,Select Proverbs 6:2

3Do 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,Select Proverbs 6:3

4Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,Select Proverbs 6:4

5Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.Select Proverbs 6:5

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

7Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,Select Proverbs 6:7

8She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.Select Proverbs 6:8

9Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?Select Proverbs 6:9

10A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,Select Proverbs 6:10

11And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.Select Proverbs 6:11

12A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,Select Proverbs 6:12

13Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,Select Proverbs 6:13

14Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.Select Proverbs 6:14

15Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken--and no healing.Select Proverbs 6:15

16These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul.Select Proverbs 6:16

17Eyes high--tongues false--And hands shedding innocent blood--Select Proverbs 6:17

18A heart devising thoughts of vanity--Feet hasting to run to evil--Select Proverbs 6:18

19A false witness who doth breathe out lies--And one sending forth contentions between brethren.Select Proverbs 6:19

20Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.Select Proverbs 6:20

21Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.Select Proverbs 6:21

22In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked--it talketh with thee.Select Proverbs 6:22

23For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,Select Proverbs 6:23

24To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.Select Proverbs 6:24

25Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.Select Proverbs 6:25

26For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.Select Proverbs 6:26

27Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?Select Proverbs 6:27

28Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?Select Proverbs 6:28

29So is he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.Select Proverbs 6:29

30They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,Select Proverbs 6:30

31And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.Select Proverbs 6:31

32He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.Select Proverbs 6:32

33A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,Select Proverbs 6:33

34For jealousy is the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.Select Proverbs 6:34

35He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!Select Proverbs 6:35