### World English Bible

Proverbs 5

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 6
#### 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, Seeing 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 be 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.

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