Proverbs 6:35 - Prayer Tents

Practical Admonitions

6My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to another,H1121H6148H7453H8628H3709H2114

2you are snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth.H3369H561H6310H3920H561H6310

3So do this, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hurry, and plead with your neighbor.H6213H645H1121H5337H935H3709H7453H3212H7511H7292H7453

4Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;H5414H8142H5869H8572H6079

5save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.H5337H6643H3027H6833H3027H3353

6Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.H3212H5244H6102H7200H1870H2449

7Without having any chief or officer or ruler,H7101H7860H4910

8it prepares its food in summer, and gathers its sustenance in harvest.H3559H3899H7019H103H3978H7105

9How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?H7901H6102H6965H8142

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

11and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.H7389H935H1980H4270H4043H376

12A scoundrel and a villain goes around with crooked speech,H1100H120H205H376H1980H6143H6310

13winking the eyes, shuffling the feet, pointing the fingers,H7169H5869H4448H7272H3384H676

14with perverted mind devising evil, continually sowing discord;H8419H3820H2790H7451H6256H7971H4066H4090

15on such a one calamity will descend suddenly; in a moment, damage beyond repair.H343H935H6597H6621H7665H4832

16There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him:H8337H3068H8130H7651H8441H5315

17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,H7311H5869H8267H3956H3027H8210H5355H1818

18a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that hurry to run to evil,H3820H2790H205H4284H7272H4116H7323H7451

19a lying witness who testifies falsely, and one who sows discord in a family.H8267H5707H6315H3577H7971H4090H251

20My child, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.H1121H5341H1H4687H5203H8451H517

21Bind them upon your heart always; tie them around your neck.H7194H8548H3820H6029H1621

22When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.H1980H5148H7901H8104H6974H7878

23For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,H4687H5216H8451H216H8433H4148H1870H2416

24to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.H8104H7451H802H2513H3956H5237

25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;H2530H3308H3824H3947H6079

26for a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man's very life.H1157H2181H802H3603H3899H802H376H6679H3368H5315

27Can fire be carried in the bosom without burning one's clothes?H376H2846H784H2436H899H8313

28Or can one walk on hot coals without scorching the feet?H376H1980H1513H7272H3554

29So is he who sleeps with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.H935H7453H802H5060H5352

30Thieves are not despised who steal only to satisfy their appetite when they are hungry.H936H1590H1589H4390H5315H7456

31Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold; they will forfeit all the goods of their house.H4672H7999H7659H5414H1952H1004

32But he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.H5003H802H2638H3820H6213H7843H5315

33He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.H5061H7036H4672H2781H4229

34For jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge.H7068H2534H1397H2550H3117H5359

35He will accept no compensation, and refuses a bribe no matter how great.H5375H6440H3724H14H7235H7810