Proverbs 6

1My son, if you be surety for your friend, you hast stricken your hand with a stranger, 2you art snared with the words of your mouth, you art taken with the words of your mouth. 3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when you art come into the hand of your friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure your friend. 4Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. 5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand , and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. 6Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8Provideth her meat in the summer, gathereth her food in the harvest. 9How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep? 10a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11So shall your poverty come as one that travelleth, and your want as an armed man. 12A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 13He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; 14Frowardness in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. 15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. 16These six does the Yahuah hate: yes, seven an abomination unto him: 17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19A false witness speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. 20My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother: 21Bind them continually upon your heart, tie them about your neck. 22When you goest, it shall lead you; when you sleepest, it shall keep you; and you awakest, it shall talk with you. 23For the commandment a lamp; and the law light; and reproofs of instruction the way of life: 24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. 25Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids. 26For by means of a whorish woman to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. 27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. 30do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; 31But he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. 32whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he does it destroyeth his own soul. 33A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. 34For jealousy the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. 35He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you givest many gifts.