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6:1  My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbour, if thou hast stricken thy hands for 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, seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbour; go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbour.
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  Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
6:7  Which having no chief, 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 robber, and thy want as an armed man.
6:12  A worthless person, a man of iniquity; he walketh with a froward mouth;
6:13  He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he maketh signs with his fingers;
6:14  Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually; he soweth discord.
6:15  Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; on a sudden shall he be broken and that without remedy.
6:16  There be six things which the LORD hateth; yea, seven which are an abomination unto him:
6:17  Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
6:18  An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief;
6:19  A false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
6:20  My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
6:21  Bind them continually upon thine heart, tie them about thy neck.
6:22  When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee; and 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 stranger's tongue.
6:25  Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
6:26  For on account of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
6:27  Can a man take 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 he that goeth in to his nieghbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.
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  He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he doeth it that would destroy his own soul.
6:33  Wounds and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
6:34  For jealousy is the rage of a man; and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
6:35  He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.