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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned? |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet? |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts. |
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