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Proverbs, Chapter 6

¹ My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, Have^a Lit clapped your palmsgiven a pledge for a stranger,	1 Pro 11:15 Pro 17:18 Pro 20:16 Pro 22:26 Pro 27:13
² If you have been snared with the words of your mouth, Have been caught with the words of your mouth,
³ Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself; Since you have come into the^b Lit palmhand of your neighbor, Go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor.
⁴ Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;	4 Psa 132:4
⁵ Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.	5 Psa 91:3 Psa 124:7
⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise,	6 Pro 30:24 Pro 30:25 Pro 6:9 Pro 10:26 Pro 13:4 Pro 20:4 Pro 26:16
⁷ Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler,	7 Pro 30:27
⁸ Prepares her food in the summer And gathers her provision in the harvest.	8 Pro 10:5
⁹ How long will you lie down, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
¹⁰ “A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to^c Lit lie downrest”—	10 Pro 24:33
¹¹ Your poverty will come in like a^d Lit one who walksvagabond And your need like^e Lit a man with a shieldan armed man.	11 Pro 24:34
¹² A worthless person, a wicked man, Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,	12 Pro 16:27 Pro 4:24 Pro 10:32
¹³ Who winks with his eyes, who^f Lit scrapessignals with his feet, Who^g Lit instructs withpoints with his fingers;	13 Job 15:12 Psa 35:19 Pro 10:10
¹⁴ Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil, Who^h Lit sends outspreads strife.	14 Pro 17:20 Pro 3:29 Mic 2:1 Pro 6:19 Pro 16:28
¹⁵ Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; Instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing.	15 Pro 24:22 Isa 30:13 Isa 30:14 Jer 19:11 Ch2 36:16
¹⁶ There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abominationⁱ Lit of His soulto Him:
¹⁷ Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood,	17 Psa 18:27 Psa 101:5 Pro 21:4 Pro 30:13 Psa 31:18 Psa 120:2 Pro 12:22 Pro 17:7 Deu 19:10 Pro 28:17 Isa 1:15 Isa 59:7
¹⁸ A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil,	18 Gen 6:5 Pro 24:2 Pro 1:16 Isa 59:7 Rom 3:15
¹⁹ A false witness who utters lies, And one who^j Lit sends outspreads strife among brothers.	19 Psa 27:12 Pro 12:17 Pro 19:5 Pro 19:9 Pro 21:28 Pro 6:14
²⁰ My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not forsake the^k Or lawteaching of your mother;	20 Eph 6:1
²¹ Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.	21 Pro 3:3
²² When you walk about,^l Lit shethey will guide you; When you sleep,^m Lit shethey will watch over you; And when you awake,ⁿ Lit shethey will talk to you.	22 Pro 3:23
²³ For the commandment is a lamp and the^o Or lawteaching is light; And reproofs for discipline are the way of life	23 Psa 19:8 Psa 119:105
²⁴ To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the^p Lit foreign womanadulteress.	24 Pro 5:3 Pro 7:5 Pro 7:21
²⁵ Do not desire her beauty in your heart, Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.	25 Mat 5:28 Ki2 9:30 Jer 4:30 Eze 23:40
²⁶ For on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread, And^q Lit a man’s wifean adulteress hunts for the precious life.	26 Pro 5:9 Pro 5:10 Pro 29:3 Pro 7:23 Eze 13:18
²⁷ Can a man^r Lit snatch uptake fire in his bosom And his clothes not be burned?
²⁸ Or can a man walk on hot coals And his feet not be scorched?
²⁹ So is the one who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; Whoever touches her will not^s Lit be innocentgo unpunished.	29 Eze 18:6 Eze 33:26 Pro 16:5
³⁰ ^t Lit They do not; or Do not men...?Men do not despise a thief if he steals To satisfy^u Lit his soulhimself when he is hungry;	30 Job 38:39
³¹ But when he is found, he must repay sevenfold; He must give all the^v Or wealthsubstance of his house.	31 Exo 22:1-4
³² The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking^w Lit heartsense; He who would destroy^x Lit his soulhimself does it.	32 Pro 7:7 Pro 9:4 Pro 9:16 Pro 10:13 Pro 10:21 Pro 11:12 Pro 12:11 Pro 7:22 Pro 7:23
³³ Wounds and disgrace he will find, And his reproach will not be blotted out.
³⁴ For jealousy^y Lit is the rage ofenrages a man, And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.	34 Pro 27:4 Sol 8:6 Pro 11:4
³⁵ He will not^z Lit lift up the face of anyaccept any ransom, Nor will he be^aa Lit willingsatisfied though you give many^ab Or bribesgifts.


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