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6:1  My son, if you are security for your friend, you have yielded your hand to a stranger.
6:2  You are trapped by the saying of your mouth and you are taken by the speech of your lips.
6:3  Do thus my son and be delivered because you are security for the person of your friend; you have fallen into the hands of your enemy. Coax therefore your friend, for whom you are security
6:4  And you shall not give sleep to your eyes neither slumber to your eyelids
6:5  That you may be delivered like a deer from a net and like a bird from a snare.
6:6  Be like the ant and see her ways and learn, for there is no harvest for her,
6:7  And there is no ruler over her, neither anyone to drive her.
6:8  And she prepares for herself her bread from the summer and she stores her food at harvest.
6:9  How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
6:10  You will slumber a little, and a little you will sleep, and for a little you will put your hand upon your chest.
6:11  Poverty will come upon you and want will overtake you like an athletic man.
6:12  A foolish evil man walks in rebellion.
6:13  He winks with his eyes and strikes with his feet and he signals with his fingers,
6:14  And he is turned backward in his heart and devises evil always, and he stirs up strife between two.
6:15  Because of this, his ruin will come suddenly and suddenly he will be broken, and there will be no remedy for him.
6:16  There are six things that Lord Jehovah hates, and his soul has despised a seventh:
6:17  Lofty eyes and the false tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
6:18  The heart that makes plans of depravity and feet that hasten to run to evil,
6:19  A false witness who speaks lies and deception among brothers.
6:20  Keep, my son, the commandment of your father and do not forget the law of your mother.
6:21  Fasten them in your heart permanently and coil them around your neck.
6:22  And whenever you walk, make them cleave to you and they will be with you; keep them that they may keep you, and when you are awakened, they will be your meditation.
6:23  For the commandment is a lamp and the law is a light, and reproof is the way of life and instruction,
6:24  To keep you from the evil woman and from the slander of the tongue of the estranged woman.
6:25  Do not desire her beauty in your heart and do not be ensnared by her eyes, neither let her capture you with her eyelids.
6:26  For the comparison of a woman who is a harlot is like a loaf of bread, and a man's wife hunts the precious soul.
6:27  Does a man put fire in his bosom and do his garments not burn?
6:28  Or does a man walk upon coals of fire and his feet are unharmed?
6:29  So he who goes unto the wife of his neighbor and touches her will not be innocent.
6:30  And not to wonder at one who is caught stealing, because he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.
6:31  And if he is caught stealing, he pays each sevenfold, and he gives all the possessions of his house.
6:32  But he who commits adultery with a woman lacks intelligence and is destroying his soul.
6:33  And he is working to bring disgrace to himself and it apprehends him, and his shame will not be forgotten.
6:34  For because the anger of a husband is full of jealousy, he has no pity in the day of vengeance.
6:35  He does not accept the appearance of a gift, neither does he consent when you increase bribes to him.