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 have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,
2 You have been ensnared by [the] words of mouth your you have been caught by [the] words of mouth your.
you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your 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.
Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.
4 May not you give sleep to eyes your and slumber to eyelids your.
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hand and like a bird from [the] hand of a fowler.
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6 Go to an ant O sluggard consider ways its and become wise.
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
7 Which not [belongs] to it [is] commander of icer and ruler.
which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
8 It prepares in the summer food its it gathers at the harvest food its.
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
9 Until when? O sluggard - will you lie down when? will you rise from sleep your.
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
10 A little of sleep a little of slumber a little of - folding of hands to rest.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—
11 And it will come like a traveler poverty your and lack your like a man of shield.
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
12 A person of worthlessness a person of wickedness [is] walking crookedness of mouth.
A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,
13 [he is] winking (With eyes his *Q(K)*) [he is] scraping (with feet his *Q(K)*) [he is] pointing with fingers his.
who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,
14 Perverse things - [are] in heart his [he is] devising evil at every time (contentions *Q(K)*) he sends out.
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
15 There-fore suddenly it will come disaster his an instant he will be broken and there not [will be] healing.
Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
16 Six [things] those he hates Yahweh and [are] seven ([the] disgusting thing of *Q(K)*) self his.
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
17 Eyes haughty a tongue of falsehood and hands [which] shed blood innocent.
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
18 A heart [which] devises plans of wickedness feet [which] hurry to run to evil.
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
19 [who] he breathes out Lies a witness of falsehood and [one who] spreads contentions between brothers.
a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
20 Keep O son my [the] commandment of father your and may not you forsake [the] instruction of mother your.
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
21 Bind them on heart your continually tie them on necks your.
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around 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.
When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
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 is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
24 To keep you from a woman of evil from smoothness of tongue a foreign [woman].
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
25 May not you desire beauty her in heart your and may not she capture you with eyelids her.
Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you 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 a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
27 ¿ Will he snatch up a man fire in bosom his and garments his not will they be burned?
Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?
28 Or? will he walk? a man on burning coals and feet his not will they be scorched.
Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
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 who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
30 Not people despise the thief if he will steal to fill appetite his for he will be hungry.
Men don’t despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry,
31 And he will be found out he will make restitution sevenfold all [the] wealth of house his he will give.
but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.
32 [one who] commits adultery A woman [is] lacking of heart [one who] destroys own self his he he will do it.
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
33 A wound and shame he will find and reproach his not it will be wiped away.
He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.
34 For jealousy [is the] rage of a man and not he will have compassion on a day of vengeance.
For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t 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 won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
