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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
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You are snared by the words of your mouth;
You are caught by the words of your mouth.
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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
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6:4
Do not give
asleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids.
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6:5
Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the
hunter’s hand
And like a bird from the fowler’s hand.
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Go to the
aant, you sluggard;
Consider its ways, and be wise,
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Which, having no chief,
Officer, or ruler,
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Prepares its food in summer
And gathers its sustenance in the harvest.
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How long, sluggard, will you lie
there?
When will you arise from your sleep?
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aA little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to rest,
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And your poverty will come
upon you like a robber,
And your want, like an armed man.
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A worthless man, a wicked man,
Goes around with a perverse mouth,
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Winking with his eyes, signaling with his feet,
Pointing with his fingers;
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With perverseness in his
aheart, he is devising evil continually;
He injects discord.
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Therefore his calamity will come suddenly;
In a moment he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.
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There are six things that Jehovah hates;
Indeed, seven that are an abomination to His soul:
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Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,
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A heart that devises wicked schemes,
aFeet that hurry to run to evil,
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A false witness who utters lies,
And one who injects
adiscord among brothers.
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aMy son, keep the commandment of your father,
And do not reject the teaching of your mother;
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aBind them continually on your heart;
Tie them around your neck.
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When you
awalk about, it will guide you,
When you lie down, it will watch over you;
And when you awake, it will talk with you.
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For the commandment is a
alamp, and the teaching a light,
And the reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
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To keep you from the evil woman,
From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
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Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her catch you with her eyelids;
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For the price of a harlot is a loaf of bread,
But the wife of
another man hunts for the precious soul.
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Can a man take fire in his bosom
And his clothes not be burned?
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Can a man walk on hot coals
And his feet not be scorched?
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So it is with him who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
No one who touches her will be unpunished.
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6:30
The thief is not despised if he steals
To satisfy himself when he is hungry;
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But if he is found out, he shall restore sevenfold;
He must give over all the substance of his house.
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He who commits
aadultery with a woman lacks sense;
He who does it destroys his own soul.
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He will find wounds and dishonor,
And his reproach will 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,
Nor will he be content if you give
him great gifts.
