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Proverbs - ch 6 v 1 - 20
- My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,
- Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,
- Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,
- Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,
- Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
- Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;
- Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,
- She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.
- Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?
- A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,
- And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.
- A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking `with' perverseness of mouth,
- Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,
- Frowardness `is' in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
- Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.
- These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven `are' abominations to His soul.
- Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --
- A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --
- A false witness `who' doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
- Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
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