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6:1  My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger;
6:2  if you are snared in the utterance of your lips, caught in the words of your mouth;
6:3  then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor’s power: go, hasten, and importune your neighbor.
6:4  Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
6:5  save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6:6  Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
6:7  Without having any chief, officer or ruler,
6:8  she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.
6:9  How long will you lie there, 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  and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond, and want like an armed man.
6:12  A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
6:13  winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger,
6:14  with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;
6:15  therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
6:16  There are six things which the Lord hates, 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 plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,
6:19  a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers.
6:20  My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
6:21  Bind them upon your heart always; tie them about your neck.
6:22  When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.
6:23  For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
6:24  to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.
6:25  Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
6:26  for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man’s very life.
6:27  Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?
6:28  Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
6:29  So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.
6:30  Do not men despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry?
6:31  And if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.
6:32  He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
6:33  Wounds and dishonor will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
6:34  For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
6:35  He will accept no compensation, nor be appeased though you multiply gifts.