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Proverbs 6

¹My child, have you promised to be responsible for someone else's debts?

²Have you been caught by your own words, trapped by your own promises?

³Well then, my child, you are in that person's power, but this is how to get out of it: hurry to him, and beg him to release you.

⁴Don't let yourself go to sleep or even stop to rest.

⁵Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter.

⁶Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.

⁷They have no leader, chief, or ruler,

⁸but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter.

⁹How long is the lazy man going to lie around? When is he ever going to get up?

¹⁰"I'll just take a short nap,"he says; "I'll fold my hands and rest a while."

¹¹But while he sleeps, poverty will attack him like an armed robber.

¹²Worthless, wicked people go around telling lies.

¹³They wink and make gestures to deceive you,

¹⁴all the while planning evil in their perverted minds, stirring up trouble everywhere.

¹⁵Because of this, disaster will strike them without warning, and they will be fatally wounded.

¹⁶There are seven things that the LORD hates and cannot tolerate: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that kill innocent people, a mind that thinks up wicked plans, feet that hurry off to do evil, a witness who tells one lie after another, and someone who stirs up trouble among friends.

²⁰Son, do what your father tells you and never forget what your mother taught you.

²¹Keep their words with you always, locked in your heart.

²²Their teaching will lead you when you travel, protect you at night, and advise you during the day.

²³Their instructions are a shining light; their correction can teach you how to live.

²⁴It can keep you away from bad women, from the seductive words of other men's wives.

²⁵Don't be tempted by their beauty; don't be trapped by their flirting eyes.

²⁶A man can hire a prostitute for the price of a loaf of bread, but adultery will cost him all he has.

²⁷Can you carry fire against your chest without burning your clothes?

²⁸Can you walk on hot coals without burning your feet?

²⁹It is just as dangerous to sleep with another man's wife. Whoever does it will suffer.

³⁰People don't despise a thief if he steals food when he is hungry;

³¹yet if he is caught, he must pay back seven times more---he must give up everything he has.

³²But a man who commits adultery doesn't have any sense. He is just destroying himself.

³³He will be dishonored and beaten up; he will be permanently disgraced.

³⁴A husband is never angrier than when he is jealous; his revenge knows no limits.

³⁵He will not accept any payment; no amount of gifts will satisfy his anger.