Proverbs 6:1-35 NASB

[1] My son, if you have become a guarantor for your neighbor, Or have given a handshake for a stranger, [2] If you have been ensnared by the words of your mouth, Or caught by the words of your mouth, [3] Then do this, my son, and save yourself: Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor, Go, humble yourself, and be urgent with your neighbor to free yourself. [4] Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids; [5] Save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand, And like a bird from the hand of the fowler. [6] Go to the ant, you lazy one, Observe its ways and be wise, [7] Which, having no chief, Officer, or ruler, [8] Prepares its food in the summer And gathers its provision in the harvest. [9] How long will you lie down, you lazy one? When will you arise from your sleep? [10] “A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest,” [11] Then your poverty will come in like a drifter, And your need like an armed man. [12] A worthless person, a wicked man, Is one who walks with a perverse mouth, [13] Who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, Who points with his fingers; [14] Who, with perversion in his heart, continually devises evil, Who spreads strife. [15] Therefore his disaster will come suddenly; Instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing. [16] There are six things that the Lord hates, Seven that are an abomination to Him: [17] Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood, [18] A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil, [19] A false witness who declares lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers. [20] My son, comply with the commandment of your father, And do not ignore the teaching of your mother; [21] Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck. [22] When you walk, they will guide you; When you sleep, they will watch over you; And when you awake, they will talk to you. [23] For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; And rebukes for discipline are the way of life [24] To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the foreign woman. [25] Do not desire her beauty in your heart, Nor let her capture you with her eyelids. [26] For the price of a prostitute reduces one to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for a precious life. [27] Can anyone take fire in his lap And his clothes not be burned? [28] Or can a person walk on hot coals And his feet not be scorched? [29] So is the one who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; Whoever touches her will not go unpunished. [30] People do not despise a thief if he steals To satisfy himself when he is hungry; [31] But when he is found, he must repay seven times as much; He must give up all the property of his house. [32] One who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; He who would destroy himself commits it. [33] He will find wounds and disgrace, And his shame will not be removed. [34] For jealousy enrages a man, And he will not have compassion on the day of vengeance. [35] He will not accept any settlement, Nor will he be satisfied though you make it a large gift.