| 章 |
| 6:1 |
My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger;
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| 6:2 |
if you are snared in the utterance of your lips, caught in the words of your mouth;
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| 6:3 |
then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hasten, and importune your neighbor.
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| 6:4 |
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
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| 6:5 |
save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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| 6:6 |
Go to the ant, O sluggard;consider her ways, and be wise.
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| 6:7 |
Without having any chief, officer or ruler,
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| 6:8 |
she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.
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| 6:9 |
How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
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| 6:10 |
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
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| 6:11 |
and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond, and want like an armed man.
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| 6:12 |
A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
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| 6:13 |
winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger,
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| 6:14 |
with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;
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| 6:15 |
therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
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| 6:16 |
There are six things which the LORD hates, seven which are an abomination to him:
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| 6:17 |
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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| 6:18 |
a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,
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| 6:19 |
a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers.
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| 6:20 |
My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
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| 6:21 |
Bind them upon your heart always;tie them about your neck.
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| 6:22 |
When you walk, they will lead you;when you lie down, they will watch over you;and when you awake, they will talk with you.
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| 6:23 |
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
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| 6:24 |
to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.
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| 6:25 |
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
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| 6:26 |
for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.
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| 6:27 |
Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?
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| 6:28 |
Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
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| 6:29 |
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;none who touches her will go unpunished.
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| 6:30 |
Do not men despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry?
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| 6:31 |
And if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;he will give all the goods of his house.
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| 6:32 |
He who commits adultery has no sense;he who does it destroys himself.
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| 6:33 |
Wounds and dishonor will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
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| 6:34 |
For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
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| 6:35 |
He will accept no compensation, nor be appeased though you multiply gifts.
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