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Proverbs - ch 6 v 1 - 20
- My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,
- You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
- Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
- Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
- Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
- Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:
- Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
- She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.
- How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
- A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
- Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
- A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;
- Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;
- His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.
- For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.
- Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:
- Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
- A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;
- A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.
- My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
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