English Bible
Proverbs 6
Big screen- 1My son, if you be guarantor for your friend, if you have stricken your hand with a stranger,
- 2You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.
- 3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you are come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.
- 4Give not sleep to yours eyes, nor slumber to yours eyelids.
- 5Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
- 6Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
- 7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
- 8Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
- 9How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?
- 10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
- 11So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your lack as an armed man.
- 12A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.
- 13He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;
- 14Perverseness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
- 15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
- 16These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
- 17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
- 18An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
- 19A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.
- 20My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:
- 21Bind them continually upon yours heart, and tie them about your neck.
- 22When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.
- 23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
- 24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
- 25Lust not after her beauty in yours heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.
- 26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.
- 27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
- 28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
- 29So he that goes in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.
- 30Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
- 31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
- 32But whoso commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.
- 33A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
- 34For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
- 35He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.