Proverbs 6

¹My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,🔗🔍
²Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.🔗🔍
³Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.🔗🔍
⁴Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.🔗🔍
⁵Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.🔗🔍
⁶Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:🔗🔍
⁷Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,🔗🔍
⁸Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.🔗🔍
⁹How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?🔗🔍
¹⁰Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:🔗🔍
¹¹So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.🔗🔍
¹²A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.🔗🔍
¹³He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;🔗🔍
¹⁴Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.🔗🔍
¹⁵Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.🔗🔍
¹⁶These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:🔗🔍
¹⁷A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,🔗🔍
¹⁸An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,🔗🔍
¹⁹A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.🔗🔍
²⁰My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:🔗🔍
²¹Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.🔗🔍
²²When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.🔗🔍
²³For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:🔗🔍
²⁴To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.🔗🔍
²⁵Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.🔗🔍
²⁶For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.🔗🔍
²⁷Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?🔗🔍
²⁸Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?🔗🔍
²⁹So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.🔗🔍
³⁰Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;🔗🔍
³¹But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.🔗🔍
³²But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.🔗🔍
³³A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.🔗🔍
³⁴For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.🔗🔍
³⁵He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.🔗🔍