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Proverbs 6 (New International Version)

Proverbs 6

Warnings Against Folly
1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,

if you have struck hands in pledge for
another,

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

3 then 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!

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

5 Free yourself,
like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,

like a bird from the snare of the
fowler.

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

7 It has no
commander,
no overseer or ruler,

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

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

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

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

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

13 who winks with
his eye,
signals with his feet

and motions with his fingers,

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

15 Therefore
disaster will overtake him in an instant;

he will suddenly be destroyed—without
remedy.

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

17 haughty eyes,

a lying tongue,

hands that shed innocent blood,

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

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

Warning Against Adultery
20 My son, keep your father's commands

and do not forsake your mother's
teaching.

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

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

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

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

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

26 for the
prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread,

and the adulteress preys upon your very
life.

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

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

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

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

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

32 But a man who
commits adultery lacks judgment;

whoever does so destroys himself.

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

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

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

Footnotes:

Proverbs
6:11 Or like a vagrant / and scarcity like a beggar

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