^6:1 My son, if you have become a surety for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands for a stranger, ^6:2 you are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

    ^6:3 Do this now, my son and deliver yourself, because you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself and behave-proudly to neighbor. ^6:4 Do not give sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. ^6:5 Deliver yourself as a roe-deer from the hand and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

    ^6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise. ^6:7 Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ^6:8 provides her bread in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.

    ^6:9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? ^6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,^6:11 so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

    ^6:12 A worthless person, a man of wickedness, is he who walks with a perverse mouth, ^6:13 who winks with his eyes, who speaks with his feet, who makes signs with his fingers, ^6:14 in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who sows discord. ^6:15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. Suddenly he will be broken and that without remedy.

    ^6:16 There are six things which Jehovah hates, yes, seven which are an abomination to him: ^6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood, ^6:18 a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to evil,^6:19 a false witness who breathes-out lies and he who sows discord among brothers.

    ^6:20 My son, keep the commandment of your father and do not forsake the law of your mother. ^6:21Bind them continually upon your heart. Tie them about your neck. ^6:22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. And when you awake, it will talk with you.

    ^6:23 Because the commandment is a lamp and the law is light and reproofs of instruction are the way of life, ^6:24 to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

    ^6:25 Do not desire after her beauty in your heart, nor let her take you with her eyelids. ^6:26 A man comes to the last piece of bread because of the price of a prostitute, but the adulteress hunts for the precious life.

    ^6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? ^6:28 Or can a man walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched?

    ^6:29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished. ^6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself because he is hungry. ^6:31 Yet if he is found, he will restore sevenfold. He will give all the substance of his house.

    ^6:32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it. ^6:33 He will get wounds and dishonor and his reproach will not be wiped away.

    ^6:34 Because jealousy is a man's fury and he will not spare in the day of vengeance. ^6:35 He will not regard any ransom, nor will he be satisfied, because you give many gifts.