| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, Have given a pledge for a stranger, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2If you have been snared with the words of your mouth, Have been caught with the words of your mouth, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself; Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor, Go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter's hand And like a bird from the hand of the fowler. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Prepares her food in the summer And gathers her provision in the harvest. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9How long will you lie down, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest "-- |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Your poverty will come in like a vagabond And your need like an armed man. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12A worthless person, a wicked man, Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who points with his fingers; |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil, Who spreads strife. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; Instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not forsake the teaching of your mother; |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22When you walk about, they will guide you; When you sleep, they will watch over you; And when you awake, they will talk to you. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; And reproofs for discipline are the way of 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 desire her beauty in your heart, Nor let her capture you with her eyelids. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for the precious life. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Can a man take fire in his bosom And his clothes not be burned? |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Or can a man walk on hot coals And his feet not be scorched? |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29So is the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife; Whoever touches her will not go unpunished. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Men do not despise a thief if he steals To satisfy himself when he is hungry; |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31But when he is found, he must repay sevenfold; He must give all the substance of his house. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; He who would destroy himself does it. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Wounds and disgrace he will find, And his reproach will not be blotted out. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34For jealousy enrages a man, And he will not spare in the day of vengeance. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35He will not accept any ransom, Nor will he be satisfied though you give many gifts. |
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