1MY SON, if you have become security for your neighbor, if you have given your pledge for a stranger {or} another,
2You are snared with the words of your lips, you are caught by the speech of your mouth.
3Do this now [at once and earnestly], my son, and deliver yourself when you have put yourself into the power of your neighbor; go, bestir {and} humble yourself, and beg your neighbor [to pay his debt and thereby release you].
4Give not [unnecessary] sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids;
5Deliver yourself, as a roe {or} gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise!--
7Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
8Provides her food in the summer and gathers her supplies in the harvest.
9How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down {and} sleep--
11So will your poverty come like a robber {or} one who travels [with slowly but surely approaching steps] and your want like an armed man [making you helpless].
12A worthless person, a wicked man, is he who goes about with a perverse (contrary, wayward) mouth.
13He winks with his eyes, he speaks by shuffling {or} tapping with his feet, he makes signs [to mislead and deceive] {and} teaches with his fingers.
14Willful {and} contrary in his heart, he devises trouble, vexation, {and} evil continually; he lets loose discord {and} sows it.
15Therefore upon him shall the crushing weight of calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken, and that without remedy.
16These six things the Lord hates, indeed, seven are an abomination to Him:
17A proud look [the spirit that makes one overestimate himself and underestimate others], a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18A heart that manufactures wicked thoughts {and} plans, feet that are swift in running to evil,
19A false witness who breathes out lies [even under oath], and he who sows discord among his brethren.
20My son, keep your father's [God-given] commandment and forsake not the law of [God] your mother [taught you].
21Bind them continually upon your heart and tie them about your neck.
22When you go, they [the words of your parents' God] shall lead you; when you sleep, they shall keep you; and when you waken, they shall talk with you.
23For the commandment is a lamp, and the whole teaching [of the law] is light, and reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a loose woman.
25Lust not after her beauty in your heart, neither let her capture you with her eyelids.
26For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread, and the adulteress stalks {and} snares [as with a hook] the precious life [of a man].
27Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?
28Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned?
29So he who cohabits with his neighbor's wife [will be tortured with evil consequences and just retribution]; he who touches her shall not be innocent {or} go unpunished.
30Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;
31But if he is found out, he must restore seven times [what he stole]; he must give the whole substance of his house [if necessary--to meet his fine].
32But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks heart {and} understanding (moral principle and prudence); he who does it is destroying his own life.
33Wounds and disgrace will he get, and his reproach will not be wiped away.
34For jealousy makes [the wronged] man furious; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance [upon the detected one].
35He will not consider any ransom [offered to buy him off from demanding full punishment]; neither will he be satisfied, though you offer him many gifts {and} bribes.
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