Prov-06
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v1
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,
v2
if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,
v3
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.
v4
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
v5
save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
v6
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
v7
Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,
v8
she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.
v9
How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
v10
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
v11
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
v12
A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
v13
winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger,
v14
with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;
v15
therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
v16
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
v17
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
v18
a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,
v19
a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.Warnings Against Adultery
v20
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
v21
Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
v22
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.
v23
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
v24
to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
v25
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
v26
for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.
v27
Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?
v28
Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
v29
So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.
v30
People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
v31
but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.
v32
He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.
v33
He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
v34
For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
v35
He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.