< Proverbs 6 >
1 My son! If you have been guarantor for your friend, Have struck your hand for a stranger,
O son my if you have stood surety for fellow-citizen your you have struck for the stranger palms your.
2 Have been snared with sayings of your mouth, Have been captured with sayings of your mouth,
You have been ensnared by [the] words of mouth your you have been caught by [the] words of mouth your.
3 Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For you have come into the hand of your friend. Go, trample on yourself, and strengthen your friend,
Do this then - O son my and deliver yourself for you have come in [the] palm of neighbor your go humble yourself and importune neighbor your.
4 Do not give sleep to your eyes, And slumber to your eyelids,
May not you give sleep to eyes your and slumber to eyelids your.
5 Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hand and like a bird from [the] hand of a fowler.
6 Go to the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;
Go to an ant O sluggard consider ways its and become wise.
7 Which has no captain, overseer, and ruler,
Which not [belongs] to it [is] commander of icer and ruler.
8 She prepares her bread in summer, She has gathered her food in harvest.
It prepares in the summer food its it gathers at the harvest food its.
9 Until when, O slothful one, do you lie? When do you arise from your sleep?
Until when? O sluggard - will you lie down when? will you rise from sleep your.
10 A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,
A little of sleep a little of slumber a little of - folding of hands to rest.
11 And your poverty has come as a traveler, And your want as an armed man.
And it will come like a traveler poverty your and lack your like a man of shield.
12 A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,
A person of worthlessness a person of wickedness [is] walking crookedness of mouth.
13 Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,
[he is] winking (With eyes his *Q(K)*) [he is] scraping (with feet his *Q(K)*) [he is] pointing with fingers his.
14 Contrariness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, He sends forth contentions.
Perverse things - [are] in heart his [he is] devising evil at every time (contentions *Q(K)*) he sends out.
15 Therefore his calamity comes suddenly, He is broken instantly—and no healing.
There-fore suddenly it will come disaster his an instant he will be broken and there not [will be] healing.
16 These six has YHWH hated, Indeed, seven [are] abominations to His soul:
Six [things] those he hates Yahweh and [are] seven ([the] disgusting thing of *Q(K)*) self his.
17 High eyes, False tongues, And hands shedding innocent blood,
Eyes haughty a tongue of falsehood and hands [which] shed blood innocent.
18 A heart devising thoughts of vanity, Feet hastening to run to evil,
A heart [which] devises plans of wickedness feet [which] hurry to run to evil.
19 A false witness [who] breathes out lies, And one sending forth contentions between brothers.
[who] he breathes out Lies a witness of falsehood and [one who] spreads contentions between brothers.
20 Keep, my son, the command of your father, And do not leave the law of your mother.
Keep O son my [the] commandment of father your and may not you forsake [the] instruction of mother your.
21 Bind them on your heart continually, Tie them on your neck.
Bind them on heart your continually tie them on necks your.
22 In your going up and down, it leads you, In your lying down, it watches over you, And you have awoken—it talks [with] you.
When walking about you - it will guide you when lying down you it will watch over you and you will awake it it will speak to you.
23 For the command [is] a lamp, And the Law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,
For [is] a lamp [the] commandment and [the] instruction [is] a light and [are] a way of life rebukes of discipline.
24 To preserve you from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
To keep you from a woman of evil from smoothness of tongue a foreign [woman].
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, And do not let her take you with her eyelids.
May not you desire beauty her in heart your and may not she capture you with eyelids her.
26 For a harlot consumes to a cake of bread, And an adulteress hunts the precious soul.
For [the] price a woman a prostitute to a round loaf of bread and [the] wife of a man a life precious she hunts.
27 Does a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burned?
¿ Will he snatch up a man fire in bosom his and garments his not will they be burned?
28 Does a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?
Or? will he walk? a man on burning coals and feet his not will they be scorched.
29 So [is] he who has gone in to the wife of his neighbor, None who touches her is innocent.
[is] thus The [one who] goes into [the] wife of neighbor his not he will go unpunished every [one who] touches her.
30 They do not despise the thief, When he steals to fill his soul when he is hungry,
Not people despise the thief if he will steal to fill appetite his for he will be hungry.
31 And being found he repays sevenfold, He gives all the substance of his house.
And he will be found out he will make restitution sevenfold all [the] wealth of house his he will give.
32 He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks heart, He who does it is destroying his soul.
[one who] commits adultery A woman [is] lacking of heart [one who] destroys own self his he he will do it.
33 He finds a stroke and shame, And his reproach is not wiped away,
A wound and shame he will find and reproach his not it will be wiped away.
34 For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he does not spare in a day of vengeance.
For jealousy [is the] rage of a man and not he will have compassion on a day of vengeance.
35 He does not accept the appearance of any atonement, Indeed, he does not consent, Though you multiply bribes!
Not he will lift up [the] face of any ransom and not he will be willing for you will make great a bribe.