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6:1  My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor or entered into an agreement with a stranger,
6:2  you have been snared by the words of your mouth— trapped by the words from your mouth.
6:3  Do this, then, my son, and free yourself, for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power: Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.
6:4  Don’t give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
6:5  Escape like a gazelle from a hunter, like a bird from a hunter’s trap.
6:6  Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise.
6:7  Without leader, administrator, or ruler,
6:8  it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food during harvest.
6:9  How long will you stay in bed, you slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
6:10  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest,
6:11  and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.
6:12  A worthless person, a wicked man goes around speaking dishonestly,
6:13  winking his eyes, signaling with his feet, and gesturing with his fingers.
6:14  He always plots evil with perversity in his heart; he stirs up trouble.
6:15  Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly; he will be shattered instantly, beyond recovery.
6:16  The Lord hates six things; in fact, seven are detestable to him:
6:17  arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
6:18  a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet eager to run to evil,
6:19  a lying witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.
6:20  My son, keep your father’s command, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.
6:21  Always bind them to your heart; tie them around your neck.
6:22  When you walk here and there, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.
6:23  For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.
6:24  They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.
6:25  Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.
6:26  For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man goes after a precious life.
6:27  Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
6:28  Can a man walk on burning coals without scorching his feet?
6:29  So it is with the one who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
6:30  People don’t despise the thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.
6:31  Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much; he must give up all the wealth in his house.
6:32  The one who commits adultery lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.
6:33  He will get a beating and dishonor, and his disgrace will never be removed.
6:34  For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
6:35  He will not be appeased by anything or be persuaded by lavish bribes.