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Proverbs 6
Chapter 6
- My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast
stricken thy hand with a stranger,
- Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken
with the words of thy mouth.
- Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come
into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure
thy friend.
- Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
- Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and
as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be
wise:
- Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
- Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food
in the harvest.
- How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise
out of thy sleep?
- [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of
the hands to sleep:
- So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy
want as an armed man.
- A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward
mouth.
- He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he
teacheth with his fingers;
- Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief
continually; he soweth discord.
- Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall
he be broken without remedy.
- These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an
abomination unto him:
- A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent
blood,
- An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be
swift in running to mischief,
- A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth
discord among brethren.
- My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the
law of thy mother:
- Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them
about thy neck.
- When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it
shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with
thee.
- For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light;
and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
- To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the
tongue of a strange woman.
- Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her
take thee with her eyelids.
- For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a
piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious
life.
- Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be
burned?
- Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
- So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever
toucheth her shall not be innocent.
- [Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his
soul when he is hungry;
- But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall
give all the substance of his house.
- [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh
understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
- A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall
not be wiped away.
- For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not
spare in the day of vengeance.
- He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest
content, though thou givest many gifts.
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