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Proverbs - ch 6 v 1 - 20
- My son, if thou hast become surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand for a stranger,
- thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
- Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, since thou hast come into the hand of thy friend: go, humble thyself, and be urgent with thy friend.
- Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:
- deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise:
- which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
- provideth her bread in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
- How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
- A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!
- So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.
- A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;
- he winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
- deceits are in his heart; he deviseth mischief at all times, he soweth discords.
- Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly: in a moment shall he be broken, and without remedy.
- These six things doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
- haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
- a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations; feet that are swift in running to mischief;
- a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.
- My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
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