| 1 | My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; |
| 2 | You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth. |
| 3 | Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor. |
| 4 | Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. |
| 5 | Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. |
| 6 | Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; |
| 7 | which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, |
| 8 | provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. |
| 9 | How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? |
| 10 | A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: |
| 11 | so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man. |
| 12 | A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth; |
| 13 | who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers; |
| 14 | in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord. |
| 15 | Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy. |
| 16 | There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: |
| 17 | haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood; |
| 18 | a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, |
| 19 | a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers. |
| 20 | My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching. |
| 21 | Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck. |
| 22 | When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you. |
| 23 | For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, |
| 24 | to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue. |
| 25 | Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. |
| 26 | For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life. |
| 27 | Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned? |
| 28 | Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? |
| 29 | So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished. |
| 30 | Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry: |
| 31 | but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house. |
| 32 | He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul. |
| 33 | He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away. |
| 34 | For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in the day of vengeance. |
| 35 | He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts. |
