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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My child, if you have put up security for a friend’s debt or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger— |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said— |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3follow my advice and save yourself, for you have placed yourself at your friend’s mercy. Now swallow your pride; go and beg to have your name erased. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Don’t put it off; do it now! Don’t rest until you do. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12What are worthless and wicked people like? They are constant liars, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye, a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Their perverted hearts plot evil, and they constantly stir up trouble. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But they will be destroyed suddenly, broken in an instant beyond all hope of healing. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16There are six things the LORD hates— no, seven things he detests: |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a family. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My son, obey your father’s commands, and don’t neglect your mother’s instruction. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Keep their words always in your heart. Tie them around your neck. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22When you walk, their counsel will lead you. When you sleep, they will protect you. When you wake up, they will advise you. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For their command is a lamp and their instruction a light; their corrective discipline is the way to life. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24It will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Don’t lust for her beauty. Don’t let her coy glances seduce you. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Can a man scoop a flame into his lap and not have his clothes catch on fire? |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet? |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29So it is with the man who sleeps with another man’s wife. He who embraces her will not go unpunished. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Excuses might be found for a thief who steals because he is starving. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole, even if he has to sell everything in his house. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys himself. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33He will be wounded and disgraced. His shame will never be erased. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34For the woman’s jealous husband will be furious, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35He will accept no compensation, nor be satisfied with a payoff of any size. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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