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Proverbs - ch 6 v 1 - 20
- My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;
- You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.
- Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, seeing you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.
- Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
- Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
- Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
- which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
- provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
- How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
- A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
- so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
- A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
- who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;
- in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
- Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
- There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
- haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
- a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
- a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
- My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.
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