  THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON
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  6:1  My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken 
       thy hand with a stranger,

  6:2  Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with 
       the words of thy mouth.

  6:3  Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into 
       the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy 
       friend.

  6:4  Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

  6:5  Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a 
       bird from the hand of the fowler.

  6:6  Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

  6:7  Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

  6:8  Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the 
       harvest.

  6:9  How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of 
       thy sleep?

  6:10  [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the 
        hands to sleep:

  6:11  So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as 
        an armed man.

  6:12  A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

  6:13  He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth 
        with his fingers;

  6:14  Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; 
        he soweth discord.

  6:15  Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be 
        broken without remedy.

  6:16  These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an 
        abomination unto him:

  6:17  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

  6:18  An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift 
        in running to mischief,

  6:19  A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord 
        among brethren.

  6:20  My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of 
        thy mother:

  6:21  Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy 
        neck.

  6:22  When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall 
        keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

  6:23  For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and 
        reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:

  6:24  To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the 
        tongue of a strange woman.

  6:25  Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take 
        thee with her eyelids.

  6:26  For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece 
        of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  6:27  Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

  6:28  Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

  6:29  So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth 
        her shall not be innocent.

  6:30  [Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul 
        when he is hungry;

  6:31  But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give 
        all the substance of his house.

  6:32  [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh 
        understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

  6:33  A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not 
        be wiped away.

  6:34  For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare 
        in the day of vengeance.

  6:35  He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, 
        though thou givest many gifts.




