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........ Parental Counsel
6:01 .. My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given a pledge for a stranger,
6:02 .. If you have been snared with the words of your mouth, have been caught with the words of your mouth,
6:03 .. Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself; since you have come into the hand of your neighbor, go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor.
6:04 .. Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids;
6:05 .. Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6:06 .. Go to the ant, O sluggard, observe her ways and be wise,
6:07 .. Which, having no chief, officer or ruler,
6:08 .. Prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provision in the harvest.
6:09 .. How long will you lie down, 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 .. Your poverty will come in like a vagabond and your need like an armed man.
6:12 .. A worthless person, a wicked man, is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,
6:13 .. Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who points with his fingers;
6:14 .. Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil, who spreads strife.
6:15 .. Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing.
6:16 .. There are six things which the Lord hates, yes, seven which 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 run rapidly to evil,
6:19 .. A false witness who utters lies, and one who spreads strife among brothers.
6:20 .. My son, observe the commandment of your father and do not forsake the teaching of your mother;
6:21 .. Bind them continually on your heart; tie them around your neck.
6:22 .. When you walk about, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk to you.
6:23 .. For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; and reproofs for discipline are the way of life.
6:24 .. To keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
6:25 .. Do not desire her beauty in your heart, nor let her capture you with her eyelids.
6:26 .. For on account of a harlot, one is reduced to a loaf of bread, and an adulteress hunts for the precious life.
6:27 .. Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?
6:28 .. Or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
6:29 .. So is the one who goes into his neighbor’s wife; whoever touches her will not go unpunished.
6:30 .. Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;
6:31 .. But when he is found, he must repay sevenfold; He must give all the substance of his house.
6:32 .. The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; he who would destroy himself does it.
6:33 .. Wounds and disgrace he will find, and his reproach will not be blotted out.
6:34 .. For jealousy enrages a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
6:35 .. He will not accept any ransom, nor will he be satisfied though you give many gifts.
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