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| Proverbs 6:1 | My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, | My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another, | My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, If you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; | My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand, |
| Proverbs 6:2 | Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. | You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you. | You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth. | Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth, |
| Proverbs 6:3 | Do this now, my son, deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. | Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour. | Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, Seeing you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor. | Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend, |
| Proverbs 6:4 | Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. | Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them; | Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids. | Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids, |
| Proverbs 6:5 | Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. | Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her. | Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, Like a bird from the snare of the fowler. | Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler. |
| Proverbs 6:6 | Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: | Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: | Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; | Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise; |
| Proverbs 6:7 | Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, | Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, | Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler, | Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler, |
| Proverbs 6:8 | Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. | She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting. | Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest. | She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food. |
| Proverbs 6:9 | How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? | How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep? | How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? | Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep? |
| Proverbs 6:10 | Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: | A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: | A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep: | A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest, |
| Proverbs 6:11 | So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. | Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man | So your poverty will come as a robber, And your scarcity as an armed man. | And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man. |
| Proverbs 6:12 | A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. | A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words; | A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he who walks with a perverse mouth; | A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth, |
| Proverbs 6:13 | He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; | Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers; | Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who motions with his fingers; | Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers, |
| Proverbs 6:14 | Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. | His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts. | In whose heart is perverseness, Who devises evil continually, Who always sows discord. | Frowardness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth. |
| Proverbs 6:15 | Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. | For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him. | Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy. | Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken and no healing. |
| Proverbs 6:16 | These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: | Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him: | There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are an abomination to him: | These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven [are] abominations to His soul. |
| Proverbs 6:17 | A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, | Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause; | Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood; | Eyes high tongues false And hands shedding innocent blood |
| Proverbs 6:18 | An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, | A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin; | A heart that devises wicked schemes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief, | A heart devising thoughts of vanity Feet hasting to run to evil |
| Proverbs 6:19 | A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. | A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers. | A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers. | A false witness [who] doth breathe out lies And one sending forth contentions between brethren. |
| Proverbs 6:20 | My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: | My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother: | My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching. | Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother. |
| Proverbs 6:21 | Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. | Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck. | Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck. | Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck. |
| Proverbs 6:22 | When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. | In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you. | When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you. | In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked it talketh [with] thee. |
| Proverbs 6:23 | For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: | For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life. | For the commandment is a lamp, And the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life, | For a lamp [is] the command, And the law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction, |
| Proverbs 6:24 | To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. | They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman. | To keep you from the immoral woman, From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue. | To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. |
| Proverbs 6:25 | Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. | Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner. | Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. | Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids. |
| Proverbs 6:26 | For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. | For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life. | For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life. | For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth. |
| Proverbs 6:27 | Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? | May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing? | Can a man scoop fire into his lap, And his clothes not be burned? | Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt? |
| Proverbs 6:28 | Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? | Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned? | Or can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched? | Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched? |
| Proverbs 6:29 | So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. | So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment. | So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished. | So [is] he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent. |
| Proverbs 6:30 | Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; | Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it: | Men don't despise a thief, If he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry: | They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry, |
| Proverbs 6:31 | But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. | But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house. | But if he be found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house. | And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth. |
| Proverbs 6:32 | But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. | He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul. | He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul. | He who committeth adultery [with] a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it. |
| Proverbs 6:33 | A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. | Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away. | He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away. | A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away, |
| Proverbs 6:34 | For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. | For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy. | For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in the day of vengeance. | For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance. |
| Proverbs 6:35 | He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. | He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased. | He won't regard any ransom, Neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts. | He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes! |
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