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Proverbs - ch 6 v 1 - 20
- My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger.
- Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.
- Do therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:
- Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.
- Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:
- Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,
- Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
- How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou rise out of thy sleep?
- Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:
- And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.
- A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,
- He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.
- With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth discord.
- To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.
- Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:
- Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
- A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,
- A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.
- My son, beep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
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