Proverbs 6

1 My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,YLT — Proverbs 6:1

2 Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,YLT — Proverbs 6:2

3 Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,YLT — Proverbs 6:3

4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,YLT — Proverbs 6:4

5 Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.YLT — Proverbs 6:5

6 Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;YLT — Proverbs 6:6

7 Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,YLT — Proverbs 6:7

8 She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.YLT — Proverbs 6:8

9 Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?YLT — Proverbs 6:9

10 A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,YLT — Proverbs 6:10

11 And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.YLT — Proverbs 6:11

12 A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,YLT — Proverbs 6:12

13 Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,YLT — Proverbs 6:13

14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.YLT — Proverbs 6:14

15 Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken — and no healing.YLT — Proverbs 6:15

16 These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven [are] abominations to His soul.YLT — Proverbs 6:16

17 Eyes high — tongues false — And hands shedding innocent blood —YLT — Proverbs 6:17

18 A heart devising thoughts of vanity — Feet hasting to run to evil —YLT — Proverbs 6:18

19 A false witness [who] doth breathe out lies — And one sending forth contentions between brethren.YLT — Proverbs 6:19

20 Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.YLT — Proverbs 6:20

21 Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.YLT — Proverbs 6:21

22 In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked — it talketh [with] thee.YLT — Proverbs 6:22

23 For a lamp [is] the command, And the law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,YLT — Proverbs 6:23

24 To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.YLT — Proverbs 6:24

25 Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.YLT — Proverbs 6:25

26 For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.YLT — Proverbs 6:26

27 Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?YLT — Proverbs 6:27

28 Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?YLT — Proverbs 6:28

29 So [is] he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.YLT — Proverbs 6:29

30 They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,YLT — Proverbs 6:30

31 And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.YLT — Proverbs 6:31

32 He who committeth adultery [with] a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.YLT — Proverbs 6:32

33 A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,YLT — Proverbs 6:33

34 For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.YLT — Proverbs 6:34

35 He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!YLT — Proverbs 6:35