Proverbs - Chapter 6 | New International Version

  • 1. My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge for another,
  • 2. if you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
  • 3. then do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands: Go and humble yourself; press your plea with your neighbor!
  • 4. Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.
  • 5. Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
  • 6. Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
  • 7. It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
  • 8. yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
  • 9. How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
  • 10. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest--
  • 11. and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.
  • 12. A scoundrel and villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
  • 13. who winks with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,
  • 14. who plots evil with deceit in his heart-- he always stirs up dissension.
  • 15. Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed--without remedy.
  • 16. There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:
  • 17. haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
  • 18. a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
  • 19. a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
  • 20. My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
  • 21. Bind them upon your heart forever; fasten them around your neck.
  • 22. When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
  • 23. For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life,
  • 24. keeping you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.
  • 25. Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes,
  • 26. for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
  • 27. Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
  • 28. Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
  • 29. So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
  • 30. Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
  • 31. Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
  • 32. But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
  • 33. Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away;
  • 34. for jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
  • 35. He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.
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