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6:1 My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, Have given a pledge for a stranger, 6:2 [If] you have been snared with the words of your mouth, Have been caught with the words of your mouth, 6:3 Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself; Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor, Go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor. 6:4 Do not give sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids; 6:5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from [the hunter's] hand, And like a bird from the hand of the fowler. 6:6 Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise, 6:7 Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler, 6:8 Prepares her food in the summer, [And] gathers her provision in the harvest. 6:9 How long will you lie down, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? 6:10 "A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest "-- 6:11 And your poverty will come in like a vagabond, And your need like an armed man. 6:12 A worthless person, a wicked man, Is the one who walks with a false mouth, 6:13 Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who points with his fingers; 6:14 Who [with] perversity in his heart devises evil continually, Who spreads strife. 6:15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; Instantly he will be broken, and there will be no healing. 6:16 There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 6:17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood, 6:18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil, 6:19 A false witness [who] utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers. 6:20 My son, observe the commandment of your father, And do not forsake the teaching of your mother; 6:21 Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck. 6:22 When you walk about, they will guide you; When you sleep, they will watch over you; And when you awake, they will talk to you. 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching is light; And reproofs for discipline are the way of life, 6:24 To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress. 6:25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, Nor let her catch you with her eyelids. 6:26 For on account of a harlot [one is reduced] to a loaf of bread, And an 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 on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched? 6:29 So is the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife; Whoever touches her will not go unpunished. 6:30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals To satisfy himself when he is hungry; 6:31 But when he is found, he must repay sevenfold; He must give all the substance of his house. 6:32 The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; He who would destroy himself does it. 6:33 Wounds and disgrace he will find, And his reproach will not be blotted out. 6:34 For jealousy enrages a man, And he will not spare in the day of vengeance. 6:35 He will not accept any ransom, Nor will he be content though you give many gifts.