bes - Proverbs:6:1-19

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.