Proverbs - Chapter 6 | English Standard Version

  • 1. My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,
  • 2. if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,
  • 3. then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.
  • 4. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
  • 5. save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
  • 6. Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
  • 7. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,
  • 8. she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.
  • 9. How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
  • 10. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
  • 11. and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
  • 12. A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
  • 13. winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger,
  • 14. with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;
  • 15. therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
  • 16. There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
  • 17. haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
  • 18. a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,
  • 19. a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
  • 20. My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
  • 21. Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
  • 22. When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.
  • 23. For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
  • 24. to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
  • 25. Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
  • 26. for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.
  • 27. Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?
  • 28. Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
  • 29. So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.
  • 30. People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
  • 31. but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.
  • 32. He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.
  • 33. Wounds and dishonor will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
  • 34. For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
  • 35. He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.
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