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| 6:1 |
My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to another,
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| 6:2 |
you are snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth.
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| 6:3 |
So do this, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hurry, and plead with your neighbor.
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| 6:4 |
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
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| 6:5 |
save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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| 6:6 |
Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
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| 6:7 |
Without having any chief or officer or ruler,
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| 6:8 |
it prepares its food in summer, and gathers its sustenance in harvest.
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| 6:9 |
How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?
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| 6:10 |
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
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| 6:11 |
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.
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| 6:12 |
A scoundrel and a villain goes around with crooked speech,
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| 6:13 |
winking the eyes, shuffling the feet, pointing the fingers,
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| 6:14 |
with perverted mind devising evil, continually sowing discord;
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| 6:15 |
on such a one calamity will descend suddenly; in a moment, damage beyond repair.
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| 6:16 |
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
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| 6:17 |
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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| 6:18 |
a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that hurry to run to evil,
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| 6:19 |
a lying witness who testifies falsely, and one who sows discord in a family.
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| 6:20 |
My child, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
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| 6:21 |
Bind them upon your heart always; tie them around your neck.
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| 6:22 |
When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.
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| 6:23 |
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
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| 6:24 |
to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
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| 6:25 |
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
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| 6:26 |
for a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man's very life.
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| 6:27 |
Can fire be carried in the bosom without burning one's clothes?
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| 6:28 |
Or can one walk on hot coals without scorching the feet?
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| 6:29 |
So is he who sleeps with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
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| 6:30 |
Thieves are not despised who steal only to satisfy their appetite when they are hungry.
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| 6:31 |
Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold; they will forfeit all the goods of their house.
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| 6:32 |
But he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
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| 6:33 |
He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
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| 6:34 |
For jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge.
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| 6:35 |
He will accept no compensation, and refuses a bribe no matter how great.
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