Proverbs:6:1-19

geneva@Proverbs:6:1 @ My sonne, if thou be surety for thy neighbour, and hast striken hands with the stranger,

geneva@Proverbs:6:2 @ Thou art (note:)He forbids us not to become surety one for another, according to the rule of charity, but that we consider for whom and after what sort, so that the creditor may not be defrauded.(:note) snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:6:3 @ Doe this nowe, my sonne, and deliuer thy selfe: seeing thou art come into the hande of thy neighbour, goe, and humble thy selfe, and sollicite thy friends.

geneva@Proverbs:6:4 @ Giue no sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

geneva@Proverbs:6:5 @ Deliuer thy selfe as a doe from the hande of the hunter, and as a birde from the hande of the fouler.

geneva@Proverbs:6:6 @ Go to the (note:)If the word of God cannot instruct you, learn from the little ant to labour for yourself and not to burden others.(:note) ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

geneva@Proverbs:6:7 @ For shee hauing no guide, gouernour, nor ruler,

geneva@Proverbs:6:8 @ Prepareth her meat in the sommer, & gathereth her foode in haruest.

geneva@Proverbs:6:9 @ Howe long wilt thou sleepe, O sluggarde? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe?

geneva@Proverbs:6:10 @ [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, (note:)He expresses the nature of the sluggards, who though they sleep long, yet never have enough, but always seek opportunity for more.(:note) a little folding of the hands to sleep:

geneva@Proverbs:6:11 @ So shall thy poverty come as one that (note:)That is, suddenly, and when you do not look for it.(:note) travelleth, and thy want as It will come in such sort, as you are not able to resist it. an armed man.

geneva@Proverbs:6:12 @ A naughty person, (note:)He shows to what inconvenience the idle persons and sluggards come, by calling them unthrifty, or the men of Belial, and slanderous.(:note) a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:6:13 @ He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he (note:)Thus all his gesture tends to wickedness,(:note) teacheth with his fingers;

geneva@Proverbs:6:14 @ Lewde things are in his heart: he imagineth euill at all times, and raiseth vp contentions.

geneva@Proverbs:6:15 @ Therefore shall his destruction come speedily: hee shall be destroyed suddenly without recouerie.

geneva@Proverbs:6:16 @ These sixe things doeth the Lorde hate: yea, his soule abhorreth seuen:

geneva@Proverbs:6:17 @ The hautie eyes, a lying tongue, and the hands that shed innocent blood,

geneva@Proverbs:6:18 @ An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, (note:)Meaning, the raging affections, which carry a man away in such sort that he cannot tell what he does.(:note) feet that be swift in running to mischief,

geneva@Proverbs:6:19 @ A false witnesse that speaketh lyes, and him that rayseth vp contentions among brethren.

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