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Proverbs 6
Proverbs 6
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
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My son, if you put up a security for your friend, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,
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you are snared by the words of your mouth; you are taken by the words of your mouth.
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Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself; since you have come into the hand of your friend, go and humble yourself, and plead with your friend.
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Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
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Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise,
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which, having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
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provides her food in the summer and gathers her sustenance in the harvest.
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How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
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so shall your poverty come upon you like a thief, and your want like an armed man.
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A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.
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He winks with his eyes, he signals with his feet, he points with his fingers;
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perverseness is in his heart, he devises evil continually, he sows discord.
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Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; suddenly he will be broken without remedy.
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There are six things that the Lord hates, seven are an abomination to Him:
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a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil,
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a false witness who speaks lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
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My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
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Bind them continually on your heart; tie them around your neck.
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When you walk, they will lead you; when you sleep, they will keep you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.
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For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
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to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of an adulteress.
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Do not desire her beauty in your heart or let her take you with her eyes;
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for the price of a prostitute leaves a man with a loaf of bread, and an adulteress preys upon his precious life.
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Can a man carry fire next to his bosom without burning his clothes?
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Can one walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
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So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; whoever touches her will not be innocent.
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Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.
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Yet if he is found, he must repay sevenfold; he must forfeit all the substance of his house.
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But he who commits adultery lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul.
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Wounds and dishonor will he get, and his reproach will not be wiped away.
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For jealousy enrages a man, and he will not spare on the day of vengeance.
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He will accept no compensation; he will not rest content though you offer many gifts.
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