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Proverbs 6 📜 📕 ↷
Warnings against Foolishness
1 MY son if thou shalt be surety for thy friend, and hast made fast thy hand to a stranger,📜💬📚
2 thou art entrapped with the words of thy mouth, & caught with thine own words.📜💬📚
3 Do therefore my son that which I say, and deliver thy self, because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run diverse ways, make haste, raise thy friend.📜💬📚
4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, neither let thine eye-lids slumber.📜💬📚
5 Deliver thyself as a little doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.📜💬📚
6 Go to the emmot, o sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom.📜💬📚
7 Who whereas she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,📜💬📚
8 prepareth meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth in the harvest for to eat.📜💬📚
9 How long wilt thou sleep, o sluggard? When wilt thou rise out of thy sleep?📜💬📚
10 Thou shalt sleep a little, a little shalt thou slumber, a little shalt thou join thy hands to sleep:📜💬📚
11 and penury shall come to thee, as a wayfaring man, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be not sluggish, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and penury shall fly far from thee.📜💬📚
12 A man that is an Apostata, a man unprofitable, goeth with perverse mouth,📜💬📚
13 winketh with the eyes, treadeth with the foot, speaketh with the finger,📜💬📚
14 with wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all time he soweth brawls.📜💬📚
15 To him his destruction shall come forthwith, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, neither shall he have remedy any more.📜💬📚
16 Six things there are which our Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:📜💬📚
17 Lofty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,📜💬📚
18 a heart that deviseth most wicked devises, feet swift to run into evil,📜💬📚
19 a deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that among brethren soweth discords.📜💬📚
Warnings against Adultery
20 My son keep the precepts of thy father, and leave not the law of thy mother.📜💬📚
21 Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy throat.📜💬📚
22 When thou shalt walk, let them go with thee: when thou shalt sleep, let them keep thee, and awaking talk with them.📜💬📚
23 Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and the way of life the increpation of discipline:📜💬📚
24 that they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the fair spoken tongue of the stranger.📜💬📚
25 Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her becks:📜💬📚
26 for the price of an harlot is scarce worth one loaf: but a woman catcheth the precious soul of man.📜💬📚
27 Can a man hide fire in his bosom, that his garments burn not?📜💬📚
28 Or walk upon hot coals, that his soles be not burnt?📜💬📚
29 so he that goeth in unto his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.📜💬📚
30 It is no great fault, when a man shall have stolen: for he stealeth to fill his hungry soul:📜💬📚
31 also being taken he shall restore sevenfold, and shall give up all the substance of his house.📜💬📚
32 But he that is an adulterer, for penury of heart shall destroy his own soul:📜💬📚
33 shame and ignominy he gathereth to himself, & his reproach shall not be blotted out.📜💬📚
34 Because the zeal and fury of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge,📜💬📚
35 neither will he yield to any man's prayers, neither will he take for redemption very many gifts.📜💬📚
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