1My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor,
2you are trapped by the words of your mouth;
3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
4Give no sleep to your eyes,
5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
6Go to the ant, you sluggard.
7which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
8provides her bread in the summer,
9How long will you sleep, sluggard?
10A little sleep, a little slumber,
11so your poverty will come as a robber,
12A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
13who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,
14in whose heart is perverseness,
15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.
16There are six things which the LORD hates;
17arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,
18a heart that devises wicked schemes,
19a false witness who utters lies,
20My son, keep your father’s commandment,
21Bind them continually on your heart.
22When you walk, it will lead you.
23For the commandment is a lamp,
24to keep you from the immoral woman,
25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart,
26For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.
27Can a man scoop fire into his lap,
28Or can one walk on hot coals,
29So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife.
30Men don’t despise a thief
31but if he is found, he shall restore seven times.
32He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.
33He will get wounds and dishonor.
34For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband.
35He won’t regard any ransom,