Proverbs - Chapter 6 | Good News Translation

  • 1. My child, have you promised to be responsible for someone else's debts?
  • 2. Have you been caught by your own words, trapped by your own promises?
  • 3. Well then, my child, you are in that person's power, but this is how to get out of it: hurry to him, and beg him to release you.
  • 4. Don't let yourself go to sleep or even stop to rest.
  • 5. Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter.
  • 6. Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.
  • 7. They have no leader, chief, or ruler,
  • 8. but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter.
  • 9. How long is the lazy man going to lie around? When is he ever going to get up?
  • 10. "I'll just take a short nap," he says; "I'll fold my hands and rest a while."
  • 11. But while he sleeps, poverty will attack him like an armed robber.
  • 12. Worthless, wicked people go around telling lies.
  • 13. They wink and make gestures to deceive you,
  • 14. all the while planning evil in their perverted minds, stirring up trouble everywhere.
  • 15. Because of this, disaster will strike them without warning, and they will be fatally wounded.
  • 16. There are seven things that the LORD hates and cannot tolerate: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that kill innocent people, a mind that thinks up wicked plans, feet that hurry off to do evil, a witness who tells one lie after another, and someone who stirs up trouble among friends.
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  • 20. Son, do what your father tells you and never forget what your mother taught you.
  • 21. Keep their words with you always, locked in your heart.
  • 22. Their teaching will lead you when you travel, protect you at night, and advise you during the day.
  • 23. Their instructions are a shining light; their correction can teach you how to live.
  • 24. It can keep you away from bad women, from the seductive words of other men's wives.
  • 25. Don't be tempted by their beauty; don't be trapped by their flirting eyes.
  • 26. A man can hire a prostitute for the price of a loaf of bread, but adultery will cost him all he has.
  • 27. Can you carry fire against your chest without burning your clothes?
  • 28. Can you walk on hot coals without burning your feet?
  • 29. It is just as dangerous to sleep with another man's wife. Whoever does it will suffer.
  • 30. People don't despise a thief if he steals food when he is hungry;
  • 31. yet if he is caught, he must pay back seven times more---he must give up everything he has.
  • 32. But a man who commits adultery doesn't have any sense. He is just destroying himself.
  • 33. He will be dishonored and beaten up; he will be permanently disgraced.
  • 34. A husband is never angrier than when he is jealous; his revenge knows no limits.
  • 35. He will not accept any payment; no amount of gifts will satisfy his anger.
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