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Proverbs 6
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbour,
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,
you are trapped by the words of your mouth;
if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself (note: Or hasten), and press your plea with your neighbor.
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Go to the ant, you sluggard.
Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
provides her bread in the summer,
it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.
How long will you sleep, sluggard?
How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
A little sleep, a little slumber,
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
so your poverty will come as a robber,
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,
winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.
in whose heart is perverseness,
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.
Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.
There are six things which the LORD hates;
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:
a heart that devises wicked schemes,
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,
a false witness who utters lies,
a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.
My son, keep your father’s commandment,
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Bind them continually on your heart.
Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
When you walk, it will lead you.
When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
For the commandment is a lamp,
For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
to keep you from the immoral woman,
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress (note: Or the stranger).
Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart,
Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes (note: Or eyelids or eyelashes).
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
So is he who goes in to his neighbour’s wife.
So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
but if he is found, he shall restore seven times.
Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.
He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
He will get wounds and dishonour.
Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.
For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband.
For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.
He won’t regard any ransom,
He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.