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Proverbs 6
Proverbs 6
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
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Son, if you endorse a note for someone you hardly know, guaranteeing his debt, you are in serious trouble.
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You may have trapped yourself by your agreement.
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Quick! Get out of it if you possibly can! Swallow your pride; don't let embarrassment stand in the way. Go and beg to have your name erased.
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Don't put it off. Do it now. Don't rest until you do.
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If you can get out of this trap you have saved yourself like a deer that escapes from a hunter or a bird from the net.
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Take a lesson from the ants, you lazy fellow. Learn from their ways and be wise!
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For though they have no king to make them work,
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yet they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.
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But you—all you do is sleep. When will you wake up?
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“Let me sleep a little longer!“ Sure, just a little more!
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And as you sleep, poverty creeps upon you like a robber and destroys you; want attacks you in full armor.
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Let me describe for you a worthless and a wicked man; first, he is a
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constant liar; he signals his true intentions to his friends with eyes and feet and fingers.
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He is always thinking up new schemes to swindle people. He stirs up trouble everywhere.
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But he will be destroyed suddenly, broken beyond hope of healing.
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For there are six things the
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Lord hates—no, seven: Haughtiness, Lying, Murdering,
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Plotting evil, Eagerness to do wrong,
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A false witness, Sowing discord among brothers.
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Young man, obey your father and your mother.
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Take to heart all of their advice; keep in mind everything they tell you.
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Every day and all night long their counsel will lead you and save you from harm; when you wake up in the morning, let their instructions guide you into the new day.
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For their advice is a beam of light directed into the dark corners of your mind to warn you of danger and to give you a good life.
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Their counsel will keep you far away from prostitutes, with all their flatteries, and unfaithful wives of other men.
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Don't lust for their beauty. Don't let their coyness seduce you.
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For a prostitute will bring a man to poverty, and an adulteress may cost him his very life.
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Can a man hold fire against his chest and not be burned?
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Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet?
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So it is with the man who commits adultery with another's wife. He shall not go unpunished for this sin.
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Excuses might even be found for a thief if he steals when he is starving!
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But even so, he is fined seven times as much as he stole, though it may mean selling everything in his house to pay it back.
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But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys his own soul.
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Wounds and constant disgrace are his lot,
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for the woman's husband will be furious in his jealousy, and he will have no mercy on you in his day of vengeance.
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You won't be able to buy him off no matter what you offer.
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