Proverbs - Chapter 6 - American King James Version
- My son, if you be surety for your friend, if you have stricken your hand with a stranger,
- You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.
- Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you are come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.
- Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
- Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
- Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
- Provides her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
- How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?
- Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
- So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man.
- A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a fraudulent mouth.
- He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;
- Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
- Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
- These six things does the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination to him:
- A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
- An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
- A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers.
- My son, keep your father' commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:
- Bind them continually on your heart, and tie them about your neck.
- When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you wake, it shall talk with you.
- For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
- To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
- Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.
- For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
- Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
- Can one go on hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
- So he that goes in to his neighbor' wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.
- Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
- But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
- But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.
- A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
- For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
- He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.