Proverbs 6

1 O son my if you have stood surety for fellow-citizen your you have struck for the stranger palms your.

[My] son, if you become surety for your friend, you shall deliver your hand to an enemy.

2 You have been ensnared by [the] words of mouth your you have been caught by [the] words of mouth your.

For a man's own lips become a strong snare to him, and he is caught with the lips of his own mouth.

3 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.

[My] son, do what I command you, and deliver yourself; for on your friend's account you are come into the power of evil [men]: faint not, but stir up even your friend for whom you are become surety.

4 May not you give sleep to eyes your and slumber to eyelids your.

Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber with your eyelids;

5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hand and like a bird from [the] hand of a fowler.

that you may deliver yourself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.

6 Go to an ant O sluggard consider ways its and become wise.

Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.

7 Which not [belongs] to it [is] commander of icer and ruler.

For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master,

8 It prepares in the summer food its it gathers at the harvest food its.

he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; whose labors kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: though weak in body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom.

9 Until when? O sluggard - will you lie down when? will you rise from sleep your.

How long will you lie, O sluggard? and when will you awake out of sleep?

10 A little of sleep a little of slumber a little of - folding of hands to rest.

You sleep a little, and you rest a little, and you slumber a short [time], and you fold your arms over your breast a little.

11 And it will come like a traveler poverty your and lack your like a man of shield.

Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

12 A person of worthlessness a person of wickedness [is] walking crookedness of mouth.

A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.

13 [he is] winking (With eyes his *Q(K)*) [he is] scraping (with feet his *Q(K)*) [he is] pointing with fingers his.

And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers.

14 Perverse things - [are] in heart his [he is] devising evil at every time (contentions *Q(K)*) he sends out.

[His] perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.

15 There-fore suddenly it will come disaster his an instant he will be broken and there not [will be] healing.

Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin.

16 Six [things] those he hates Yahweh and [are] seven ([the] disgusting thing of *Q(K)*) self his.

For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.

17 Eyes haughty a tongue of falsehood and hands [which] shed blood innocent.

The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;

18 A heart [which] devises plans of wickedness feet [which] hurry to run to evil.

and a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, —[are hateful to God].

19 [who] he breathes out Lies a witness of falsehood and [one who] spreads contentions between brothers.

An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.

20 Keep O son my [the] commandment of father your and may not you forsake [the] instruction of mother your.

[My] son, keep the laws of your father, and reject not the ordinances of your mother:

21 Bind them on heart your continually tie them on necks your.

but bind them upon your soul continually, and hang them as a chain about your neck.

22 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.

Whenever you walk, lead this along and let it be with you; that it may talk with you when you wake.

23 For [is] a lamp [the] commandment and [the] instruction [is] a light and [are] a way of life rebukes of discipline.

For the commandment of the law is a lamp and a light; a way of life; reproof also and correction:

24 To keep you from a woman of evil from smoothness of tongue a foreign [woman].

to keep you continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.

25 May not you desire beauty her in heart your and may not she capture you with eyelids her.

Let not the desire of beauty overcome you, neither be you caught by your eyes, neither be captivated with her eyelids.

26 For [the] price a woman a prostitute to a round loaf of bread and [the] wife of a man a life precious she hunts.

For the value of a harlot is as much as of one loaf; and a woman hunts for the precious souls of men.

27 ¿ Will he snatch up a man fire in bosom his and garments his not will they be burned?

Shall any one bind fire in his bosom, and not burn his garments?

28 Or? will he walk? a man on burning coals and feet his not will they be scorched.

or will any one walk on coals of fire, and not burn his feet?

29 [is] thus The [one who] goes into [the] wife of neighbor his not he will go unpunished every [one who] touches her.

So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her.

30 Not people despise the thief if he will steal to fill appetite his for he will be hungry.

It is not to be wondered at if one should be taken stealing, for he steals that when hungry he may satisfy his soul:

31 And he will be found out he will make restitution sevenfold all [the] wealth of house his he will give.

but if he should be taken, he shall repay sevenfold, and shall deliver himself by giving all his goods.

32 [one who] commits adultery A woman [is] lacking of heart [one who] destroys own self his he he will do it.

But the adulterer through lack of sense procures destruction to his soul.

33 A wound and shame he will find and reproach his not it will be wiped away.

He endures both pain and disgrace, and his reproach shall never be wiped off.

34 For jealousy [is the] rage of a man and not he will have compassion on a day of vengeance.

For the soul of her husband is full of jealousy: he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

35 Not he will lift up [the] face of any ransom and not he will be willing for you will make great a bribe.

He will not forego [his] enmity for any ransom: neither will he be reconciled for many gifts.