6My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge for another,H1121H6148H7453H8628H3709H2114

2if you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth,H3369H561H6310H3920H561H6310

3then do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands: Go and humble yourself; press your plea with your neighbor!H6213H645H1121H5337H935H3709H7453H3212H7511H7292H7453

4Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.H5414H8142H5869H8572H6079

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

6Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!H3212H5244H6102H7200H1870H2449

7It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,H7101H7860H4910

8yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.H3559H3899H7019H103H3978H7105

9How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?H7901H6102H6965H8142

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

11and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.H7389H935H1980H4270H4043H376

12A scoundrel and villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,H1100H120H205H376H1980H6143H6310

13who winks with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,H7169H5869H4448H7272H3384H676

14who plots evil with deceit in his heart--he always stirs up dissension.H8419H3820H2790H7451H6256H7971H4066H4090

15Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed--without remedy.H343H935H6597H6621H7665H4832

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

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

18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,H3820H2790H205H4284H7272H4116H7323H7451

19a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.H8267H5707H6315H3577H7971H4090H251

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

21Bind them upon your heart forever; fasten them around your neck.H7194H8548H3820H6029H1621

22When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.H1980H5148H7901H8104H6974H7878

23For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life,H4687H5216H8451H216H8433H4148H1870H2416

24keeping you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.H8104H7451H802H2513H3956H5237

25Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes,H2530H3308H3824H3947H6079

26for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.H1157H2181H802H3603H3899H802H376H6679H3368H5315

27Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?H376H2846H784H2436H899H8313

28Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?H376H1980H1513H7272H3554

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

30Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.H936H1590H1589H4390H5315H7456

31Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.H4672H7999H7659H5414H1952H1004

32But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.H5003H802H2638H3820H6213H7843H5315

33Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away;H5061H7036H4672H2781H4229

34for jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.H7068H2534H1397H2550H3117H5359

35He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.H5375H6440H3724H14H7235H7810