# Proverbs 6 [[Proverbs 5|←]] • [[Proverbs 7|→]] --- ### 1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, ### 2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. ### 3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. ### 4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. ### 5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. ### 6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: ### 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, ### 8 Provideth her meat in the summer, gathereth her food in the harvest. ### 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? ### 10 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ### 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. ### 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. ### 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; ### 14 Frowardness in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. ### 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. ### 16 These six doth the Lord hate: yea, seven an abomination unto him: ### 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, ### 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, ### 19 A false witness speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. ### 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ### 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, tie them about thy neck. ### 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. ### 23 For the commandment a lamp; and the law light; and reproofs of instruction the way of life: ### 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. ### 25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. ### 26 For by means of a whorish woman to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. ### 27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ### 28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? ### 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. ### 30 do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; ### 31 But he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. ### 32 whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he doeth it destroyeth his own soul. ### 33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. ### 34 For jealousy the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. ### 35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.