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6:1  My son, if you put up a security for your friend, if you have shaken hands with a stranger,
6:2  you are snared with the words of your mouth; you are taken with the words of your mouth.
6:3  Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself; when you have come into the hand of your friend, go and humble yourself; plead with your friend.
6:4  Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
6:5  Deliver yourself as a doe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6:6  Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise.
6:7  Which, having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
6:8  provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
6:9  How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
6:10  Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—
6:11  so will your poverty come upon you like a stalker, and your need as an armed man.
6:12  A wayward person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.
6:13  He winks with his eyes, he signals with his feet, he motions with his fingers;
6:14  perversity is in his heart, he devises mischief continually, he sows discord.
6:15  Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; in a moment he will be broken without remedy.
6:16  These six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to 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 mischief,
6:19  a false witness who speaks lies, and he who sows discord among brethren.
6:20  My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
6:21  Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.
6:22  When you go, they will lead you; when you sleep, they will keep you; and when you awake, they will speak with you.
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 you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a seductress.
6:25  Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, nor let her allure you with her eyelids.
6:26  For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a piece of bread, and the adulteress will prey upon his precious life.
6:27  Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
6:28  Can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
6:29  So he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; whoever touches her will not be innocent.
6:30  Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.
6:31  But if he is found, he will restore sevenfold; he will give all the substance of his house.
6:32  But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul.
6:33  A wound and dishonor will he get, and his reproach will 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 regard any ransom, nor will he rest content, though you give many gifts.