6:1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, 6:2 if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, 6:3 then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. 6:4 Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; 6:5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. 6:6 Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. 6:7 Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, 6:8 she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. 6:9 How long will you lie there, 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 poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man. 6:12 A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, 6:13 winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, 6:14 with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; 6:15 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. 6:16 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that 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 make haste to run to evil, 6:19 a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. 6:20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching. 6:21 Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck. 6:22 When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you. 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, 6:24 to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. 6:25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; 6:26 for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life. 6:27 Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned 6:28 Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched 6:29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished. 6:30 People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry, 6:31 but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house. 6:32 He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself. 6:33 He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away. 6:34 For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge. 6:35 He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.