Proverbs 6 - Prayer Tents

Lessons for Daily Life

2if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said—H3369H561H6310H3920H561H6310

3follow my advice and save yourself, for you have placed yourself at your friend’s mercy. Now swallow your pride; go and beg to have your name erased.H6213H645H1121H5337H935H3709H7453H3212H7511H7292H7453

4Don’t put it off; do it now! Don’t rest until you do.H5414H8142H5869H8572H6079

5Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net.H5337H6643H3027H6833H3027H3353

6Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise!H3212H5244H6102H7200H1870H2449

7Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work,H7101H7860H4910

8they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.H3559H3899H7019H103H3978H7105

9But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up?H7901H6102H6965H8142

10A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—H4592H8142H4592H8572H4592H2264H3027H7901

11then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.H7389H935H1980H4270H4043H376

12What are worthless and wicked people like? They are constant liars,H1100H120H205H376H1980H6143H6310

13signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye, a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers.H7169H5869H4448H7272H3384H676

14Their perverted hearts plot evil, and they constantly stir up trouble.H8419H3820H2790H7451H6256H7971H4066H4090

15But they will be destroyed suddenly, broken in an instant beyond all hope of healing.H343H935H6597H6621H7665H4832

16There are six things the Lord hates—no, seven things he detests.H8337H3068H8130H7651H8441H5315

17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent,H7311H5869H8267H3956H3027H8210H5355H1818

18a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong,H3820H2790H205H4284H7272H4116H7323H7451

19a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a family.H8267H5707H6315H3577H7971H4090H251

20My son, obey your father’s commands, and don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.H1121H5341H1H4687H5203H8451H517

21Keep their words always in your heart. Tie them around your neck.H7194H8548H3820H6029H1621

22When you walk, their counsel will lead you. When you sleep, they will protect you. When you wake up, they will advise you.H1980H5148H7901H8104H6974H7878

23For their command is a lamp and their instruction a light; their corrective discipline is the way to life.H4687H5216H8451H216H8433H4148H1870H2416

24It will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman.H8104H7451H802H2513H3956H5237

25Don’t lust for her beauty. Don’t let her coy glances seduce you.H2530H3308H3824H3947H6079

26For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.H1157H2181H802H3603H3899H802H376H6679H3368H5315

27Can a man scoop a flame into his lap and not have his clothes catch on fire?H376H2846H784H2436H899H8313

28Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet?H376H1980H1513H7272H3554

29So it is with the man who sleeps with another man’s wife. He who embraces her will not go unpunished.H935H7453H802H5060H5352

30Excuses might be found for a thief who steals because he is starving.H936H1590H1589H4390H5315H7456

31But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole, even if he has to sell everything in his house.H4672H7999H7659H5414H1952H1004

32But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys himself.H5003H802H2638H3820H6213H7843H5315

33He will be wounded and disgraced. His shame will never be erased.H5061H7036H4672H2781H4229

34For the woman’s jealous husband will be furious, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.H7068H2534H1397H2550H3117H5359

35He will accept no compensation, nor be satisfied with a payoff of any size.H5375H6440H3724H14H7235H7810