Holy Bible - English Bible in Basic English(BBE)

6:1	My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,
6:2	You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
6:3	Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
6:4	Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
6:5	Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
6:6	Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:
6:7	Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
6:8	She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.
6:9	How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
6:10	A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
6:11	Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
6:12	A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;
6:13	Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;
6:14	His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.
6:15	For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.
6:16	Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:
6:17	Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
6:18	A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;
6:19	A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.
6:20	My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
6:21	Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
6:22	In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
6:23	For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
6:24	They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
6:25	Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
6:26	For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
6:27	May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?
6:28	Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?
6:29	So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
6:30	Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:
6:31	But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.
6:32	He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
6:33	Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
6:34	For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.
6:35	He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.