PR-6:1  My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast

stricken thy

hand with a stranger,

PR-6:2  Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art

taken with the

words of thy mouth.

PR-6:3  Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art

come into the

hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

PR-6:4  Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine

eyelids.

PR-6:5  Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter],

and as a bird

from the hand of the fowler.

PR-6:6  Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be

wise:

PR-6:7  Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

PR-6:8  Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her

food in the

harvest.

PR-6:9  How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou

arise out of thy

sleep?

PR-6:10  [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little

folding of the hands

to sleep:

PR-6:11  So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and

thy want as an

armed man.

PR-6:12  A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward

mouth.

PR-6:13  He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he

teacheth with

his fingers;

PR-6:14  Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief

continually; he

soweth discord.

PR-6:15  Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly

shall he be

broken without remedy.

PR-6:16  These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are]

an

abomination unto him:

PR-6:17  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed

innocent blood,

PR-6:18  An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that

be swift in

running to mischief,

PR-6:19  A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that

soweth discord

among brethren.

PR-6:20  My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not

the law of thy

mother:

PR-6:21  Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them

about thy

neck.

PR-6:22  When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest,

 it shall

keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

PR-6:23  For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light;

 and reproofs

of instruction [are] the way of life:

PR-6:24  To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of

the tongue of

a strange woman.

PR-6:25  Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let

her take thee

with her eyelids.

PR-6:26  For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a

piece of

bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

PR-6:27  Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not

be burned?

PR-6:28  Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

PR-6:29  So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever

toucheth her

shall not be innocent.

PR-6:30  [Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy

his soul when he

is hungry;

PR-6:31  But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he

shall give all

the substance of his house.

PR-6:32  [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh

understanding:

he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

PR-6:33  A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach

shall not be

wiped away.

PR-6:34  For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will

not spare in

the day of vengeance.

PR-6:35  He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest

content, though

thou givest many gifts.

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