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6:1  My son, if you have become a guarantor for your neighbor, Have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,
6:2  If you have been snared with the words of your mouth, Have been caught with the words of your mouth,
6:3  Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself; Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor, Go, humble yourself, and badger your neighbor.
6:4  Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
6:5  Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6:6  Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise,
6:7  Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler,
6:8  Prepares her food in the summer And gathers her provision in the harvest.
6:9  How long will you lie down, 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  Your poverty will come in like a vagabond And your want like an armed man.
6:12  A vile person, a wicked man, Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,
6:13  Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who points with his fingers;
6:14  Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil, Who spreads contentions.
6:15  Therefore his disaster will come suddenly; Instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing.
6:16  There are six things which Yahweh hates, Even 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 thoughts, Feet that hasten to run to evil,
6:19  A false witness who breathes out lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.
6:20  My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not abandon the law of your mother;
6:21  Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.
6:22  When you walk about, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep watch over you; And when you awake, they will speak to you.
6:23  For the commandment is a lamp and the law is light; And reproofs for discipline are the way of life
6:24  To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.
6:25  Do not desire her beauty in your heart, Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.
6:26  For on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for the precious life.
6:27  Can a man take fire in his bosom And his clothes not be burned?
6:28  Or can a man walk on hot coals And his feet not be scorched?
6:29  So is the one who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; Whoever touches her will not go unpunished.
6:30  Men do not despise a thief if he steals To fill himself when he is hungry;
6:31  But when he is found, he must repay sevenfold; He must give all the substance of his house.
6:32  The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking a heart of wisdom; He who would destroy his soul does it.
6:33  Wounds and disgrace he will find, And his reproach will not be blotted out.
6:34  For jealousy enrages a man, And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
6:35  He will not accept any ransom, He will not be willing though you give many bribes.