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[1]My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you have struck your hands with a stranger,
[2]you are snared with the words of your mouth; you are captured with the words of your mouth.
[3]My son, do this then, and deliver yourself when you come into the hand of your friend: go humble yourself and entreat your friend.
[4]Do not give sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
[5]Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
[6]Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise;
[7]who, having no commander, overseer or ruler,
[8]provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
[9]How long will you rest, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
[10]A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest;
[11]so shall your poverty come as one walking, and your need like an armed man.
[12]A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
[13]winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, pointing with his fingers.
[14]Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil all the time, he spreads strife.
[15]Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; he shall be broken in an instant without remedy.
[16]These six things Jehovah hates; yea, seven are an abomination to his soul:
[17]Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
[18]a heart that devises evil plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,
[19]a false witness who breathes lies, and he who spreads strife among brothers.
[20]My son, keep your father's commands, and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
[21]Bind them perpetually to your heart; tie them around your neck.
[22]When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall watch over you; and when you awake, it will speak with you.
[23]For the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
[24]to keep you from the evil woman, from the seductiveness of the foreign tongue.
[25]Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, and do not let her captivate you with her eyelids.
[26]For on account of a promiscuous woman, a man comes to a loaf of bread; for the man's wife hunts for the precious soul.
[27]Can a man take fire into his bosom and his clothes not be burned?
[28]Or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
[29]So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.
[30]They do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry.
[31]But if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the wealth of his house.
[32]He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; he who does so destroys his own soul.
[33]Wounds and dishonor shall befall him, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
[34]For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
[35]He will not regard any bribes, nor will he yield to the giving of many gifts.
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