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[1]My son, if thou be surety for thy neighbor, and hast stricken hands with the stranger,
[2]Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth: thou art even taken with the words of thine own mouth.
[3]Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself: seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbor, go, and humble thyself, and solicit thy friends.
[4]Give no sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
[5]Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
[6]Go to the pismire, O sluggard: behold her ways, and be wise.
[7]For she having no guide, governor, nor ruler,
[8]Prepareth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in harvest.
[9]How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
[10]Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
[11]Therefore thy poverty cometh as one that travaileth by the way, and thy necessity like an armed man.
[12]The unthrifty man and the wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.
[13]He maketh a sign with his eyes: he signifieth with his feet: he instructeth with his fingers.
[14]Lewd things are in his heart: he imagineth evil at all times, and raiseth up contentions.
[15]Therefore shall his destruction come speedily: he shall be destroyed suddenly without recovery.
[16]These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, his soul abhorreth seven:
[17]The haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and the hands that shed innocent blood,
[18]An heart that imagineth wicked enterprises, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
[19]A false witness that speaketh lies, and him that raiseth up contentions among brethren.
[20]My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not thy mother's instruction.
[21]Bind them alway upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
[22]It shall lead thee, when thou walkest: it shall watch for thee, when thou sleepest, and when thou wakest, it shall talk with thee.
[23]For the commandment is a lantern, and instruction a light: and corrections for instruction are the way of life,
[24]To keep thee from the wicked woman, and from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
[25]Desire not her beauty in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eye lids.
[26]For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsel of bread, and a woman will hunt for the precious life of a man.
[27]Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
[28]Or can a man go upon coals, and his feet not be burned?
[29]So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife, shall not be innocent, whosoever toucheth her.
[30]Men do not despise a thief, when he stealeth, to satisfy his soul, because he is hungry.
[31]But if he be found, he shall restore seven fold, or he shall give all the substance of his house.
[32]But he that committeth adultery with a woman, he is destitute of understanding: he that doeth it, destroyeth his own soul.
[33]He shall find a wound and dishonor, and his reproach shall never be put away.
[34]For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
[35]He cannot bear the sight of any ransom: neither will he consent, though thou augment the gifts.
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