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Proverbs 6
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1My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor,
- if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;
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2You are trapped by the words of your mouth.
- You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.
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3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
- since you have come into the hand of your neighbor.
- Go, humble yourself.
- Press your plea with your neighbor.
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4Give no sleep to your eyes,
- nor slumber to your eyelids.
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5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
- like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
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6Go to the ant, you sluggard.
- Consider her ways, and be wise;
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7which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
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8provides her bread in the summer,
- and gathers her food in the harvest.
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9How long will you sleep, sluggard?
- When will you arise out of your sleep?
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10A little sleep, a little slumber,
- a little folding of the hands to sleep:
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11so your poverty will come as a robber,
- and your scarcity as an armed man.
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12A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
- is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
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13who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,
- who motions with his fingers;
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14in whose heart is perverseness,
- who devises evil continually,
- who always sows discord.
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15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.
- He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
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16There are six things which Yahweh hates;
- yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
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17haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
- hands that shed innocent blood;
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18a heart that devises wicked schemes,
- feet that are swift in running to mischief,
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19a false witness who utters lies,
- and he who sows discord among brothers.
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20My son, keep your father’s commandment,
- and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
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21Bind them continually on your heart.
- Tie them around your neck.
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22When you walk, it will lead you.
- When you sleep, it will watch over you.
- When you awake, it will talk with you.
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23For the commandment is a lamp,
- and the law is light.
- Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
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24to keep you from the immoral woman,
- from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
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25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart,
- neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
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26For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.
- The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
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27Can a man scoop fire into his lap,
- and his clothes not be burned?
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28Or can one walk on hot coals,
- and his feet not be scorched?
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29So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife.
- Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
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30Men don’t despise a thief,
- if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:
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31but if he is found, he shall restore seven times.
- He shall give all the wealth of his house.
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32He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.
- He who does it destroys his own soul.
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33He will get wounds and dishonor.
- His reproach will not be wiped away.
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34For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband.
- He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.
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35He won’t regard any ransom,
- neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
