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Prouerbs 6

¹My sonne, if thou bee surety for thy friend, it thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

²Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the wordes of thy mouth.

³Doe this now, my sonne, and deliuer thy selfe, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend: goe, humble thy selfe, and make sure thy friend.

⁴Giue not sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

⁵Deliuer thy selfe as a Roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁶Goe to the Ant, thou sluggard, consider her wayes, and be wise.

⁷Which hauing no guide, ouerseer, or ruler,

⁸Prouideth her meat in the Summer, and gathereth her food in the haruest.

⁹How long wilt thou sleepe, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe?

¹⁰Yet a little sleepe, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleepe.

¹¹So shall thy pouertie come as one that trauaileth, and thy want as an armed man.

¹²A naughtie person, a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.

¹³He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feete, hee teacheth with his fingers.

¹⁴Frowardnesse is in his heart, he deuiseth mischiefe continually, he soweth discord.

¹⁵Therefore shall his calamitie come suddenly; suddenly shall hee be broken without remedie.

¹⁶These sixe things doeth the Lord hate; yea seuen are an abomination vnto him:

¹⁷A proude looke, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood:

¹⁸An heart that deuiseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischiefe:

¹⁹A false witnesse that speaketh lies; and him that soweth discord among brethren.

²⁰My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

²¹Binde them continually vpon thine heart, and tie them about thy necke.

²²When thou goest, it shall leade thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keepe thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talke with thee.

²³For the Commandement is a lampe, and the Lawe is light: and reproofes of instruction are the way of life:

²⁴To keepe thee from the euill woman, from the flatterie of the tongue of a strange woman.

²⁵Lust not after her beautie in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

²⁶For by meanes of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteresse will hunt for the precious life.

²⁷Can a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be burnt?

²⁸Can one goe vpon hote coales, and his feete not be burnt?

²⁹So he that goeth in to his neighbours wife; whosoeuer toucheth her, shall not be innocent.

³⁰Men doe not despise a thiefe, if he steale to satisfie his soule, when hee is hungry:

³¹But if he be found, he shall restore seuenfold, he shall giue all the substance of his house.

³²But who so committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh vnderstanding: hee that doeth it, destroyeth his owne soule.

³³A wound and dishonour shall he get, and his reproch shall not be wiped away.

³⁴For iealousie is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

³⁵He will not regard any ransome; neither will hee rest content, though thou giuest many giftes.