Proverbs 6

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

²if you have been trapped by the words of your lips,

³then do this, my son, to free yourself,

⁴Allow no sleep to your eyes

⁵Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,6:5 Hebrew does not include of the hunter.

⁶Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker;

⁷Without a commander,

⁸it prepares its provisions in summer;

⁹How long will you lie there, O slacker?

¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber,

¹¹and poverty will come upon you like a robber,

¹²A worthless person, a wicked man,

¹³winking his eyes, speaking with his feet,

¹⁴With deceit in his heart he devises evil;

¹⁵Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;

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

¹⁷haughty eyes,

¹⁸a heart that devises wicked schemes,

¹⁹a false witness who gives false testimony,

²⁰My son, keep your father’s commandment,

²¹Bind them always upon your heart;

²²When you walk, they will guide you;

²³For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light,

²⁴to keep you from the evil woman,

²⁵Do not lust in your heart for her beauty

²⁶For the levy of the prostitute is poverty,6:26 Literally a crust of bread

²⁷Can a man embrace fire

²⁸Can a man walk on hot coals

²⁹So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife;

³⁰Men do not despise the thief

³¹Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold;

³²He who commits adultery lacks judgment;

³³Wounds and dishonor will befall him,

³⁴For jealousy enrages a husband,

³⁵He will not be appeased by any ransom,