Prov 6
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My son, if you are become surety for your neighbor, If you have stricken your hands
for a stranger;
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You are snared with the words of your mouth, You are taken with the words of your
mouth.
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Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, Seeing you are come into the hand of your
neighbor: Go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor;
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Give not sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
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Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], And as a bird from the hand
of the fowler.
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Go to the ant, you sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:
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Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,
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Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.
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How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
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[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
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So shall your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.
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A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
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That winks with his eyes, that speaks with his feet, That makes signs with his fingers;
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In whose heart is perverseness, Who devises evil continually, Who sows discord.
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Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that
without remedy.
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There are six things which YHWH hates; Yea, seven which are an abomination to him:
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Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
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A heart that devises wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,
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A false witness that utters lies, And he who sows discord among brethren.
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My son, keep the commandment of your father, And forsake not the law of your mother:
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Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them about your neck.
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When you walk, it shall lead you; When you sleep, it shall watch over you; And when
you awake, it shall talk with you.
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For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are
the way of life:
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To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner`s tongue.
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Lust not after her beauty in your heart; Neither let her take you with her eyelids.
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For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress
hunts for the precious life.
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Can a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes not be burned?
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Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?
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So he who goes in to his neighbor`s wife; Whoever touches her shall not be unpunished.
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Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry:
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But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the substance of
his house.
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He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He does it who
would destroy his own soul.
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Wounds and dishonor shall he get; And his reproach shall not be wiped away.
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For jealousy is the rage of a man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
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He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest content, though you give many
gifts.