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6:1  My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast struck 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 when thou hast come into the hand of thy friend: Go, humble thyself, so that thou shalt prevail with thy friend.
6:4  Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
6:5  Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6:6  Look to the ant, thou sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise,
6:7  which, having no guide, overseer or ruler,
6:8  provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth 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 a marauder, and thy want as an armed man.
6:12  A vile person, a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth;
6:13  he winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
6:14  frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually, he soweth discord.
6:15  Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
6:16  These six things doth the Lord hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto Him:
6:17  a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
6:18  a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
6:19  a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth 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; when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
6:23  For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction 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 eyelids.
6:26  For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought down to a piece of bread, and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
6:27  Can a man take fire to 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 he that goeth in to his neighbor’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
6:30  Men do not despise a thief if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry.
6:31  But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
6:32  But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding; he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
6:33  A wound and dishonor shall he get, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
6:34  For jealousy is the rage of a man; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance;
6:35  he will not consider any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.