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6:1  My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
6:2  thou art snared with the words of thy mouth; thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
6:3  Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, for thou hast fallen into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
6:4  Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
6:5  Escape as a roe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6:6  Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise,
6:7  Who having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
6:8  provides her food in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.
6:9  How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
6:10  Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
6:11  So shall thy poverty come as one that travels and thy want as an armed man.
6:12  A wicked man of Belial walks with a perverse mouth.
6:13  He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;
6:14  there is perversion in his heart; he devises evil continually; he sows discord.
6:15  Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; suddenly he shall be broken without remedy.
6:16  These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
6:17  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
6:18  a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,
6:19  a false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.
6:20  My son, keep thy father’s commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother:
6:21  Bind them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck.
6:22  When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
6:23  For the commandment is fire, and the law is light; and reproofs of chastening are the way of life,
6:24  to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
6:25  Lust not after her beauty in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eyes.
6:26  For by means of a whorish woman a man is reduced to a piece of bread, and the woman will hunt the precious soul of the man.
6:27  Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?
6:28  Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
6:29  So is he that goes in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.
6:30  Men do not take a thief lightly, even if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
6:31  and once he is taken, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
6:32  But whosoever commits adultery with a woman has a fault in his heart; he that does it corrupts his own soul.
6:33  A wound and dishonour shall he get, and his reproach shall never be wiped away.
6:34  For the jealous rage of a man will not spare in the day of vengeance.
6:35  He will not regard any ransom; neither will he want to forgive, though thou givest many bribes.