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| 6:1 |
My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,
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| 6:2 |
Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,
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| 6:3 |
Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,
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| 6:4 |
Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,
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| 6:5 |
Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
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| 6:6 |
Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;
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| 6:7 |
Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,
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| 6:8 |
She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.
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| 6:9 |
Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?
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| 6:10 |
A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,
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| 6:11 |
And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.
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| 6:12 |
A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,
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| 6:13 |
Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,
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| 6:14 |
Frowardness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
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| 6:15 |
Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.
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| 6:16 |
These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven [are] abominations to His soul.
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| 6:17 |
Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --
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| 6:18 |
A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --
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| 6:19 |
A false witness [who] doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
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| 6:20 |
Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
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| 6:21 |
Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.
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| 6:22 |
In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked -- it talketh [with] thee.
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| 6:23 |
For a lamp [is] the command, And the law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,
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| 6:24 |
To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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| 6:25 |
Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.
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| 6:26 |
For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
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| 6:27 |
Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?
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| 6:28 |
Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?
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| 6:29 |
So [is] he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
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| 6:30 |
They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,
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| 6:31 |
And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.
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| 6:32 |
He who committeth adultery [with] a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.
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| 6:33 |
A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,
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| 6:34 |
For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.
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| 6:35 |
He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!
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