# Proverbs 6 [[Prov-05|← Proverbs 05]] | [[Proverbs]] | [[Prov-07|Proverbs 07 →]] *** ###### v1 My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger, ###### v2 you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your mouth. ###### v3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor. ###### v4 Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. ###### v5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. ###### v6 Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; ###### v7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ###### v8 provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. ###### v9 How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? ###### v10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: ###### v11 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man. ###### v12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth, ###### v13 who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers, ###### v14 in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord. ###### v15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy. ###### v16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: ###### v17 arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, ###### v18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, ###### v19 a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers. ###### v20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching. ###### v21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck. ###### v22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you. ###### v23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, ###### v24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue. ###### v25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. ###### v26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life. ###### v27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned? ###### v28 Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? ###### v29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished. ###### v30 Men don't despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry; ###### v31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house. ###### v32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul. ###### v33 He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away. ###### v34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in the day of vengeance. ###### v35 He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts. *** [[Prov-05|← Proverbs 05]] | [[Proverbs]] | [[Prov-07|Proverbs 07 →]]