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Proverbs 6 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Practical Warnings

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My son, if you have become a guarantor for your neighbor,

Have struck your [fn]hands in pledge for a stranger,

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If you have been snared with the words of your mouth,

Have been caught with the words of your mouth,

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Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself;

Since you have come into the [fn]hand of your neighbor,

Go, humble yourself, and badger your neighbor.

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Give no sleep to your eyes,

Nor slumber to your eyelids;

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Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand

And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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Go to the ant, O sluggard,

Observe her ways and be wise,

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Which, having no chief,

Officer or ruler,

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Prepares her food in the summer

And gathers her provision in the harvest.

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How long will you lie down, O sluggard?

When will you arise from your sleep?

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“A little sleep, a little slumber,

A little folding of the hands to [fn]rest”—

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Your poverty will come in like [fn]a vagabond

And your want like [fn]an armed man.

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A vile person, a wicked man,

Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,

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Who winks with his eyes, who [fn]signals with his feet,

Who [fn]points with his fingers;

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Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil,

Who [fn]spreads contentions.

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Therefore his disaster will come suddenly;

Instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing.

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There are six things which Yahweh hates,

Even seven which are an abomination [fn]to Him:

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Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,

And hands that shed innocent blood,

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A heart that devises wicked thoughts,

Feet that hasten to run to evil,

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A false witness who breathes out lies,

And one who [fn]spreads strife among brothers.

Warning Against Adultery

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My son, observe the commandment of your father

And do not abandon the [fn]law of your mother;

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Bind them continually on your heart;

Tie them around your neck.

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When you walk about, [fn]they will lead you;

When you sleep, [fn]they will keep watch over you;

And when you awake, [fn]they will speak to you.

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For the commandment is a lamp and the [fn]law is light;

And reproofs for discipline are the way of life

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To keep you from the evil woman,

From the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

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Do not desire her beauty in your heart,

Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.

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For on account of [fn]a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread,

And [fn]an adulteress hunts for the precious [fn]life.

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Can a man [fn]take fire in his bosom

And his clothes not be burned?

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Or can a man walk on hot coals

And his feet not be scorched?

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So is the one who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;

Whoever touches her will not [fn]go unpunished.

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[fn]Men do not despise a thief if he steals

To fill [fn]himself when he is hungry;

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But when he is found, he must repay sevenfold;

He must give all the [fn]substance of his house.

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The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking a heart of wisdom;

He who would destroy his soul does it.

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Wounds and disgrace he will find,

And his reproach will not be blotted out.

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For jealousy [fn]enrages a man,

And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

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He will not [fn]accept any ransom,

He will not be willing though you give many bribes.

LSB Footnotes
Lit palms
Lit palm
Lit lie down
Lit one who walks
Lit a man with a shield
Lit scrapes
Lit instructs
Lit sends out
Lit of His soul
Lit sends out
Or instruction
Lit she
Lit she
Lit she
Or instruction
Or a woman who is a harlot
Or a woman of another man
Lit soul
Lit snatch up
Lit be innocent
Or Do not men...?; lit They do not
Lit his soul
Or wealth
Lit is the rage of
Lit lift up the face of
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