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6:1  My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor, if you have agreed to a deal with a stranger,
6:2  trapped by your own words, and caught by your own words,
6:3  then do this, my son, and deliver yourself, because you have come under your neighbor's control. Go, humble yourself! Plead passionately with your neighbor!
6:4  Don't allow yourself to sleep or even to close your eyes.
6:5  Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hunter's hand, or like a bird from a fowler's hand.
6:6  Go to the ant, you lazy man! Observe its ways and become wise.
6:7  It has no commander, officer, or ruler,
6:8  but prepares its provisions in the summer and gathers its food in the harvest.
6:9  How long will you lie down, lazy man? When will you get up from your sleep?
6:10  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
6:11  and your poverty will come on you like a bandit and your desperation like an armed man.
6:12  A worthless man, a wicked man, goes around with devious speech,
6:13  winking with his eyes, making signs with his feet, pointing with his fingers,
6:14  planning evil with a perverse mind, continually stirring up discord.
6:15  Therefore, disaster will overtake him suddenly. He will be broken in an instant, and he will never recover.
6:16  Here are six things that the LORD hates— seven, in fact, are detestable to him:
6:17  Arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, and hands shedding innocent blood;
6:18  a heart crafting evil plans, feet running swiftly to wickedness,
6:19  a false witness snorting lies, and someone sowing quarrels between brothers.
6:20  Keep your father's commands, my son, and never forsake your mother's rules,
6:21  by binding them to your heart continuously, fastening them around your neck.
6:22  During your travels wisdom will lead you; she will watch over you while you rest; and when you are startled from your sleep, she will commune with you.
6:23  Because the command is a lamp and the Law a light, rebukes that discipline are a way of life—
6:24  to protect you from the evil woman, from the words of the seductive woman.
6:25  Do not focus on her beauty in your mind, nor allow her to take you prisoner with her flirting eyes,
6:26  because the price of a whore is a loaf of bread, and an adulterous woman stalks a man's precious life.
6:27  Can a man scoop fire into his bosom without burning his clothes?
6:28  Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
6:29  So also is it with someone who has sex with his neighbor's wife; anyone touching her will not remain unpunished.
6:30  A thief isn't despised if he steals to meet his needs when he is hungry,
6:31  but when he is discovered, he must restore seven-fold, forfeiting the entire value of his house.
6:32  Whoever commits adultery with a woman is out of his mind; by doing so he corrupts his own soul.
6:33  He will receive a beating and dishonor, and his shame won't disappear,
6:34  because jealousy incites a strong man's rage, and he will show no mercy when it's time for revenge.
6:35  He will not consider any payment, nor will he be willing to accept it, no matter how large the bribe.