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| The Book of Proverbs 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Basic English Online Bible (BEN) | ||||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:1 | My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another, | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:2 | You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:3 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:4 | Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them; | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:5 | Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:6 | Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:7 | Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:8 | She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:9 | How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep? | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:10 | A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:11 | Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:12 | A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words; | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:13 | Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers; | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:14 | His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:15 | For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:16 | Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:17 | Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause; | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:18 | A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin; | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:19 | A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:20 | My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:21 | Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:22 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:23 | For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:24 | They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:25 | Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:26 | For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:27 | May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing? | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:28 | Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned? | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:29 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:30 | Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it: | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:31 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:32 | He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:33 | Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:34 | For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy. | |||||||||||||||
| Proverbs 6:35 | He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased. | |||||||||||||||
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