6My child①, if you have put up security for a friend’s debt or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger—/ ①Hebrew My sonH1121H6148H7453H8628H3709H21142if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said—H3369H561H6310H3920H561H63103follow my advice and save yourself, for you have placed yourself at your friend’s mercy. Now swallow your pride; go and beg to have your name erased.H6213H645H1121H5337H935H3709H7453H3212H7511H7292H74534Don’t put it off; do it now! Don’t rest until you do.H5414H8142H5869H8572H60795Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net.H5337H6643H3027H6833H3027H33536Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise!H3212H5244H6102H7200H1870H24497Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work,H7101H7860H49108they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.H3559H3899H7019H103H3978H71059But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up?H7901H6102H6965H814210A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—H4592H8142H4592H8572H4592H2264H3027H790111then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.H7389H935H1980H4270H4043H37612What are worthless and wicked people like? They are constant liars,H1100H120H205H376H1980H6143H631013signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye, a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers.H7169H5869H4448H7272H3384H67614Their perverted hearts plot evil, and they constantly stir up trouble.H8419H3820H2790H7451H6256H7971H4066H409015But they will be destroyed suddenly, broken in an instant beyond all hope of healing.H343H935H6597H6621H7665H483216There are six things the Lord hates—no, seven things he detests.H8337H3068H8130H7651H8441H531517haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent,H7311H5869H8267H3956H3027H8210H5355H181818a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong,H3820H2790H205H4284H7272H4116H7323H745119a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a family.H8267H5707H6315H3577H7971H4090H25120My son, obey your father’s commands, and don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.H1121H5341H1H4687H5203H8451H51721Keep their words always in your heart. Tie them around your neck.H7194H8548H3820H6029H162122When you walk, their counsel will lead you. When you sleep, they will protect you. When you wake up, they will advise you.H1980H5148H7901H8104H6974H787823For their command is a lamp and their instruction a light; their corrective discipline is the way to life.H4687H5216H8451H216H8433H4148H1870H241624It will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman.H8104H7451H802H2513H3956H523725Don’t lust for her beauty. Don’t let her coy glances seduce you.H2530H3308H3824H3947H607926For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.H1157H2181H802H3603H3899H802H376H6679H3368H531527Can a man scoop a flame into his lap and not have his clothes catch on fire?H376H2846H784H2436H899H831328Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet?H376H1980H1513H7272H355429So it is with the man who sleeps with another man’s wife. He who embraces her will not go unpunished.H935H7453H802H5060H535230Excuses might be found for a thief who steals because he is starving.H936H1590H1589H4390H5315H745631But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole, even if he has to sell everything in his house.H4672H7999H7659H5414H1952H100432But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys himself.H5003H802H2638H3820H6213H7843H531533He will be wounded and disgraced. His shame will never be erased.H5061H7036H4672H2781H422934For the woman’s jealous husband will be furious, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.H7068H2534H1397H2550H3117H535935He will accept no compensation, nor be satisfied with a payoff of any size.H5375H6440H3724H14H7235H7810
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