Book of Proverbs, Chapter 6
Chapter 6 of Proverbs
have given your pledge for a stranger;
caught in the words of your mouth;
for you have come into your neighbor’s power:
go, hasten,[b] and importune your neighbor.
and your eyelids no slumber;
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
consider her ways, and be wise.
officer or ruler,
and gathers her sustenance in harvest.
When will you arise from your sleep?
a little folding of the hands to rest,
and want like an armed man.
goes about with crooked speech,
points with his finger,
continually sowing discord;
in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
seven which are an abomination to him:
and hands that shed innocent blood,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
and a man who sows discord among brothers.
and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
tie them about your neck.
when you lie down, they[f] will watch over you;
and when you awake, they[g] will talk with you.
and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
but an adulteress[i] stalks a man’s very life.
and his clothes not be burned?
and his feet not be scorched?
none who touches her will go unpunished.
to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry?
he will give all the goods of his house.
he who does it destroys himself.
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
nor be appeased though you multiply gifts.FOOTNOTES
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