Proverbs 6
6:1O son, if you should guarantee a loan for your friend, you shall deliver up your hand to the enemy.
6:2For a man's own lips are a strong snare, and he is captured by the words of his own mouth.
6:3Do, O son, what I give charge to you, and preserve yourself! For on account of your friend you come into the hands of evils. Be not enfeebled! but you provoke even your friend whom you guaranteed a loan.
6:4You should not give sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eyelids,
6:5so that you should escape as a doe from nooses, and as a fowl from out of a snare.
6:6Be as the ant, O lazy one, and be jealous beholding his ways; and become as that one -- wiser!
6:7For to that one there is no farm possession, nor is he having one compelling him, nor is he being under a master.
6:8He prepares the nourishment of summer, and also he prepares much in the harvest for the fete.
6:9For how long, O lazy one, do you recline? And when will you arise from out of sleep?
6:10A little then to sleep, and a little you sit down, and a little you slumber, and a little you fold your arms with hands to the breasts.
6:11So then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveler; and lack as a good runner.
6:12A man, a fool and a lawbreaker, shall go by ways not good.
6:13And the same beckons with the eyes, and makes signs with the foot, and teaches with the beckoning of his fingers.
6:14And a heart being perverted contrives evils; at all time such a one concocts disturbances to a city.
6:15On account of this his destruction comes suddenly; severance and irretrievable destruction.
6:16For he rejoices in all things which the lord detests; and he is destroyed because of uncleanness of soul --
6:17an insulting eye, an unjust tongue, hands pouring out righteous blood,
6:18and a heart contriving evil devices, and feet hurrying to do evil.
6:19An unjust witness kindles lying, and brings in addition judicial cases between brethren.
6:20O son, guard the laws of your father! and you should not thrust away the rules of your mother.
6:21But affix them upon your soul always, and bind them with a cord around your neck!
6:22When ever you should walk, bring it, and let it be with you! And when ever you should sleep, let it guard you! that in arising it should converse together with you.
6:23For the commandment of the law is a lamp, and a light, and a way of life, and reproof, and instruction;
6:24to guard you from a married woman, and from the distraction of a strange tongue.
6:25O son, let not the desire of beauty overcome you, nor your eyes be caught nor seized by her eyelids.
6:26For the value of a harlot is as much as even one bread loaf; and a woman ensnares the precious souls of men.
6:27Shall anyone tie up fire in his bosom, and his garments not incinerate?
6:28Or shall anyone walk upon coals of fire, and his feet shall not incinerate.
6:29So the one entering to a married woman; he shall not be acquitted, nor any one touching her.
6:30It is not a wonder if any be captured stealing; for he steals that he should fill up his soul when hungering;
6:31but if he should be captured he shall pay seven-fold, and shall rescue himself by giving all his possessions.
6:32But the adulterer, through lack of sense, procures destruction for his soul.
6:33Both griefs and dishonor he suffers, and his scorn shall not be wiped away into the eon.
6:34For the rage of her husband is full of zeal; he will not spare in the day of judgment.
6:35He will not bargain for any ransom of his hatred, nor part by many gifts.