Proverbs 6
bes@Proverbs:6:1 @ My son, if thou become surety for thy friend, thou shalt deliver thine hand to an enemy.
bes@Proverbs:6:2 @ For a man’s own lips become a strong snare to him, and he is caught with the lips of his own mouth.
bes@Proverbs:6:3 @ My son, do what I command thee, and deliver thyself; for on thy friend’s account thou art come into the power of evil men: faint not, but stir up even thy friend for whom thou art become surety.
bes@Proverbs:6:4 @ Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber with thine eyelids;
bes@Proverbs:6:5 @ that thou mayest deliver thyself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.
bes@Proverbs:6:6 @ Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.
bes@Proverbs:6:7 @ For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master,
bes@Proverbs:6:8 @ he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. (note:)(6:8AA)(:note) Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; (6:8BA) whose labours kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: (6:8CA) though weak in Gr. strength body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom.
bes@Proverbs:6:9 @ How long wilt thou lie, O sluggard? and when wilt thou awake out of sleep?
bes@Proverbs:6:10 @ Thou sleepest a little, and thou restest a little, and thou slumberest a short time, and thou foldest thine arms over thy breast a little.
bes@Proverbs:6:11 @ Then poverty comes upon thee as an evil traveller, and want as a swift courier: (note:)(6:11AA)(:note) but if thou be diligent, thine harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
bes@Proverbs:6:12 @ A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.
bes@Proverbs:6:13 @ And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers.
bes@Proverbs:6:14 @ His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.
bes@Proverbs:6:15 @ Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin. (note:)Comp. Hebrews.(:note)
bes@Proverbs:6:16 @ For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.
bes@Proverbs:6:17 @ The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;
bes@Proverbs:6:18 @ and a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, —are hateful to God.
bes@Proverbs:6:19 @ An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and (note:)Gr. sends forth judgements(:note) brings on quarrels between brethren.
bes@Proverbs:6:20 @ My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the ordinances of thy mother:
bes@Proverbs:6:21 @ but bind them upon thy soul continually, and hang them as a chain about thy neck.
bes@Proverbs:6:22 @ Whensoever thou walkest, lead this along and let it be with thee; that it may talk with thee when thou wakest.
bes@Proverbs:6:23 @ For the commandment of the law is a lamp and a light; a way of life; reproof also and correction:
bes@Proverbs:6:24 @ to keep thee continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.
bes@Proverbs:6:25 @ Let not the desire of beauty overcome thee, neither be thou caught by thine eyes, neither be captivated with her eyelids.
bes@Proverbs:6:26 @ For the value of a harlot is as much as of one loaf; and a woman hunts for the precious souls of men.
bes@Proverbs:6:27 @ Shall any one bind fire in his bosom, and not burn his garments?
bes@Proverbs:6:28 @ or will any one walk on coals of fire, and not burn his feet?
bes@Proverbs:6:29 @ So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her.
bes@Proverbs:6:30 @ It is not to be wondered at if one should be taken stealing, for he steals that when hungry he may satisfy his soul:
bes@Proverbs:6:31 @ but if he should be taken, he shall repay sevenfold, and shall deliver himself by giving all his goods.
bes@Proverbs:6:32 @ But the adulterer through want of sense procures destruction to his soul.
bes@Proverbs:6:33 @ He endures both pain and disgrace, and his reproach shall never be wiped off.
bes@Proverbs:6:34 @ For the soul of her husband is full of jealousy: he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
bes@Proverbs:6:35 @ He will not forego his enmity for any ransom: neither will he be reconciled for many gifts.