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6:1  My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to the stranger,
6:2  if you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, if you are caught by the sayings of your mouth,
6:3  do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into the palm of your neighbor’s hand: Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.
6:4  Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.
6:5  Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.
6:6  Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise.
6:7  It has no chief, officer, or ruler.
6:8  In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance.
6:9  How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep?
6:10  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest—
6:11  like a robber shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.
6:12  A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with deceitful speech.
6:13  Winking in his eye, shuffling in his foot, pointing in his fingers,
6:14  perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.
6:15  Upon such a man, suddenly shall his calamity come; in a moment he will be damaged and there is no healing.
6:16  There are six things Yahweh hates, and seven things are abominations of his soul:
6:17  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
6:18  a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil,
6:19  a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers.
6:20  My child, keep the commandment of your father, and do not disregard the instruction of your mother.
6:21  Bind them on your heart continually; tie them upon your neck.
6:22  When you walk, she will lead you, When you lie down, she will watch over you, and when you awake, she will converse with you.
6:23  For like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light, and the way of life is the reproof of discipline,
6:24  in order to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of the tongue of an adulteress.
6:25  Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.
6:26  For the price of a woman, a prostitute, is the price of a loaf of bread, but the woman belonging to a man hunts precious life.
6:27  Can a man carry fire in his lap, and his clothes not burn?
6:28  If a man walks upon the hot coals, will his feet not be burned?
6:29  Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished.
6:30  People do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry.
6:31  But if he is found, he will pay sevenfold, every possession of his house he shall give.
6:32  He who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, he destroys himself who does it.
6:33  A wound and dishonor he will find, and his disgrace will not be wiped out.
6:34  For jealousy is the fury of a husband, and he will not show restraint on the day of revenge.
6:35  He will not accept any compensation, and he will not be willing, though the bribe is large.