Proverbs 6

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbour,

If you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

²You are trapped by the words of your mouth.

You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

³Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,

Seeing you have come into the hand of your neighbour.

Go, humble yourself.

Press your plea with your neighbour.

⁴Give no sleep to your eyes,

Nor slumber to your eyelids.

⁵Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,

Like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

⁶Go to the ant, you sluggard.

Consider her ways, and be wise;

⁷Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

⁸Provides her bread in the summer,

And gathers her food in the harvest.

⁹How long will you sleep, sluggard?

When will you arise out of your sleep?

¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber,

A little folding of the hands to sleep:

¹¹So your poverty will come as a robber,

And your scarcity as an armed man.

¹²A worthless person, a man of iniquity,

Is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

¹³Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,

Who motions with his fingers;

¹⁴In whose heart is perverseness,

Who devises evil continually,

Who always sows discord.

¹⁵Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.

He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

¹⁶There are six things which Allah hates;

Yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

¹⁷Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,

Hands that shed innocent blood;

¹⁸A heart that devises wicked schemes,

Feet that are swift in running to mischief,

¹⁹A false witness who utters lies,

And he who sows discord among brothers.

²⁰My son, keep your father's commandment,

And do not forsake your mother's teaching.

²¹Bind them continually on your heart.

Tie them around your neck.

²²When you walk, it will lead you.

When you sleep, it will watch over you.

When you awake, it will talk with you.

²³For the commandment is a lamp,

And the Taurat is light.

Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

²⁴To keep you from the immoral woman,

From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

²⁵Do not lust after her beauty in your heart,

Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

²⁶For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.

The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

²⁷Can a man scoop fire into his lap,

And his clothes not be burned?

²⁸Or can one walk on hot coals,

And his feet not be scorched?

²⁹So is he who goes in to his neighbour's wife.

Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

³⁰Men do not despise a thief,

If he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

³¹But if he is found, he shall restore seven times.

He shall give all the wealth of his house.

³²He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.

He who does it destroys his own soul.

³³He will get wounds and dishonour.

His reproach will not be wiped away.

³⁴For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband.

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.