6:1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger:

6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth:

6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend:

6:4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:

6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler:

6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

6:7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler:

6:8 Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest:

6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep:

6:10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man:

6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth:

6:13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers:

6:14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord:

6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy:

6:16 These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:

6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood:

6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief:

6:19 A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren:

6:20 My son, keep thy father' s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck:

6:22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with thee:

6:23 For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:

6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman:

6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids:

6:26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life:

6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned:

6:28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned:

6:29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour' s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent:

6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry:

6:31 But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house:

6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul:

6:33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away:

6:34 For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance:

6:35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts: