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Prov.|6:1|-|My son, if you have become a surety for your neighbor,If you have given your hands as a pledge for a stranger,
Prov.|6:2|-|You are snared by the words of your mouth;You are caught by the words of your mouth.
Prov.|6:3|-|Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.
Prov.|6:4|-|Do not give |a|sleep to your eyes,Nor slumber to your eyelids.
Prov.|6:5|-|Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s handAnd like a bird from the fowler’s hand.
Prov.|6:6|-|Go to the |a|ant, you sluggard;Consider its ways, and be wise,
Prov.|6:7|-|Which, having no chief,Officer, or ruler,
Prov.|6:8|-|Prepares its food in summerAnd gathers its sustenance in the harvest.
Prov.|6:9|-|How long, sluggard, will you lie there?When will you arise from your sleep?
Prov.|6:10|-||a|A little sleep, a little slumber,A little folding of the hands to rest,
Prov.|6:11|-|And your poverty will come upon you like a robber,And your want, like an armed man.
Prov.|6:12|-|A worthless man, a wicked man,Goes around with a perverse mouth,
Prov.|6:13|-|Winking with his eyes, signaling with his feet,Pointing with his fingers;
Prov.|6:14|-|With perverseness in his |a|heart, he is devising evil continually;He injects discord.
Prov.|6:15|-|Therefore his calamity will come suddenly;In a moment he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.
Prov.|6:16|-|There are six things that Jehovah hates;Indeed, seven that are an abomination to His soul:
Prov.|6:17|-|Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,And hands that shed innocent blood,
Prov.|6:18|-|A heart that devises wicked schemes,|a|Feet that hurry to run to evil,
Prov.|6:19|-|A false witness who utters lies,And one who injects |a|discord among brothers.
Prov.|6:20|-||a|My son, keep the commandment of your father,And do not reject the teaching of your mother;
Prov.|6:21|-||a|Bind them continually on your heart;Tie them around your neck.
Prov.|6:22|-|When you |a|walk about, it will guide you,When you lie down, it will watch over you;
And when you awake, it will talk with you.
Prov.|6:23|-|For the commandment is a |a|lamp, and the teaching a light,And the reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
Prov.|6:24|-|To keep you from the evil woman,From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Prov.|6:25|-|Do not desire her beauty in your heart,Nor let her catch you with her eyelids;
Prov.|6:26|-|For the price of a harlot is a loaf of bread,But the wife of another man hunts for the precious soul.
Prov.|6:27|-|Can a man take fire in his bosomAnd his clothes not be burned?
Prov.|6:28|-|Can a man walk on hot coalsAnd his feet not be scorched?
Prov.|6:29|-|So it is with him who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;No one who touches her will be unpunished.
Prov.|6:30|-|The thief is not despised if he stealsTo satisfy himself when he is hungry;
Prov.|6:31|-|But if he is found out, he shall restore sevenfold;He must give over all the substance of his house.
Prov.|6:32|-|He who commits |a|adultery with a woman lacks sense;He who does it destroys his own soul.
Prov.|6:33|-|He will find wounds and dishonor,And his reproach will not be wiped away.
Prov.|6:34|-|For jealousy is the rage of a man,And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Prov.|6:35|-|He will not regard any ransom,Nor will he be content if you give him great gifts.
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