Proverbs 6 — ULB

6Verse 1My son, if you set aside your money as a guarantee for your neighbor's loan,
if you gave your promise for a loan of someone you do not know,
^{Verse 2}then you have laid a trap for yourself by your promise
and you have been caught by the words of your mouth.
^{Verse 3}When you are caught by your words, my son, do this and save yourself,
since you have fallen into the hand of your neighbor;
go and humble yourself and make your case before your neighbor.
^{Verse 4}Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber.
^{Verse 5}Save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
^{Verse 6}Look at the ant, you lazy person,
consider her ways, and be wise.
^{Verse 7}It has no commander,
officer, or ruler,
^{Verse 8}yet it prepares its food in the summer
and during the harvest it stores up what it will eat.
^{Verse 9}How long will you sleep, you lazy person?
When will you rise from your sleep?
^{Verse 10}“A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest”—
^{Verse 11}and your poverty will come like a robber
and your needs like an armed soldier.
^{Verse 12}A worthless person—a wicked man—
lives by the crookedness of his speech,
^{Verse 13}winking his eyes, making signals with his feet
and pointing with his fingers.
^{Verse 14}He plots evil with deceit in his heart;
he always stirs up discord.
^{Verse 15}Therefore his disaster will overtake him in an instant;
in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
^{Verse 16}There are six things that Yahweh hates,
seven that are disgusting to him.
^{Verse 17}The eyes of a proud person, a tongue that lies,
hands that shed the blood of innocent people,
^{Verse 18}a heart that invents wicked schemes,
feet that quickly run to do evil,
^{Verse 19}a witness who breathes out lies
and one who sows discord among brothers.
^{Verse 20}My son, obey the command of your father
and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
^{Verse 21}Always bind them on your heart;
tie them about your neck.
^{Verse 22}When you walk, they will guide you;
when you sleep, they will watch over you;
and when you wake up, they will teach you.
^{Verse 23}For the commands are a lamp, and the teaching is a light;
the corrections that come by instruction are the way of life.
^{Verse 24}It keeps you from the immoral woman,
from the smooth words of an immoral woman.
^{Verse 25}Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes.
^{Verse 26}Sleeping with a prostitute can cost the price of a loaf of bread,
but the wife of another may cost you your very life.
^{Verse 27}Can a man carry a fire against his chest
without burning his clothes?
^{Verse 28}Can a man walk on hot coals
without scorching his feet?
^{Verse 29}So is the man who sleeps with his neighbor's wife;
the one who sleeps with her will not go unpunished.
^{Verse 30}People do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy his need when he is hungry.
^{Verse 31}Yet if he is caught, he will pay back seven times what he stole;
he must give up everything of value in his house.
^{Verse 32}The one who commits adultery has no sense;
the one who does it destroys himself.
^{Verse 33}Wounds and shame are what he deserves
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
^{Verse 34}For jealousy makes a man furious;
he will show no mercy when he takes his revenge.
^{Verse 35}He will accept no compensation
and he cannot be bought off, though you offer him many gifts.