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6:1My son, if you have become a surety for your neighbor, / If you have given your hands as a pledge for a stranger,
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6:2You are snared by the words of your mouth; / You are caught by the words of your mouth.
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6:3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, / Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor: / Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.
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6:4Do not give sleep to your eyes, / Nor slumber to your eyelids.
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6:5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter's hand / And like a bird from the fowler's hand.
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6:6Go to the ant, you sluggard; / Consider its ways, and be wise,
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6:7Which, having no chief, / Officer, or ruler,
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6:8Prepares its food in summer / And gathers its sustenance in the harvest.
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6:9How long, sluggard, will you lie there? / When will you arise from your sleep?
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6:10A little sleep, a little slumber, / A little folding of the hands to rest,
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6:11And your poverty will come upon you like a robber, / And your want, like an armed man.
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6:12A worthless man, a wicked man, / Goes around with a perverse mouth,
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6:13Winking with his eyes, signaling with his feet, / Pointing with his fingers;
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6:14With perverseness in his heart, he is devising evil continually; / He injects discord.
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6:15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; / In a moment he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.
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6:16There are six things that Jehovah hates; / Indeed, seven that are an abomination to His soul:
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6:17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, / And hands that shed innocent blood,
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6:18A heart that devises wicked schemes, / Feet that hurry to run to evil,
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6:19A false witness who utters lies, / And one who injects discord among brothers.
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6:20My son, keep the commandment of your father, / And do not reject the teaching of your mother;
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6:21Bind them continually on your heart; / Tie them around your neck.
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6:22When you walk about, it will guide you, / When you lie down, it will watch over you; / And when you awake, it will talk with you.
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6:23For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, / And the reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
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6:24To keep you from the evil woman, / From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
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6:25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, / Nor let her catch you with her eyelids;
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6:26For the price of a harlot is a loaf of bread, / But the wife of another man hunts for the precious soul.
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6:27Can a man take fire in his bosom / And his clothes not be burned?
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6:28Can a man walk on hot coals / And his feet not be scorched?
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6:29So it is with him who goes in to his neighbor's wife; / No one who touches her will be unpunished.
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6:30The thief is not despised if he steals / To satisfy himself when he is hungry;
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6:31But if he is found out, he shall restore sevenfold; / He must give over all the substance of his house.
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6:32He who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense; / He who does it destroys his own soul.
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6:33He will find wounds and dishonor, / And his reproach will not be wiped away.
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6:34For jealousy is the rage of a man, / And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
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6:35He will not regard any ransom, / Nor will he be content if you give him great gifts.
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7:1My son, keep my words, / And treasure up my commandments within you.
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7:2Keep my commandments, and live; / And my teaching, like the apple of your eye.
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7:3Bind them on your fingers; / Write them on the tablet of your heart.
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7:4Say to wisdom, You are my sister, / And call understanding your close friend,
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7:5That they may keep you from the strange woman, / From the adulteress who flatters with her words.
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7:6For at the window of my house / I looked out through my lattice,
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7:7And I saw among the simple ones, / I discerned among the youths, / A young man lacking sense,
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7:8Passing along the street near her corner; / And he takes the way to her house,
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7:9In the twilight, in the evening of the day, / In the deep of night and darkness.
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7:10And there comes a woman to meet him, / Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
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7:11She is rowdy and defiant; / Her feet do not stay at home -
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7:12Now in the street, now in the squares, / And at every corner she lies in wait.
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7:13And she grabs him and kisses him; / And with an impudent face she says to him,
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7:14I had to make offerings; / Today I have paid my vows.
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7:15Therefore I have come out to meet you, / To earnestly seek your presence; and I have found you.
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7:16I have decked my couch with coverings, / Colored spreads of the linen of Egypt;
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7:17I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, / Aloes, and cinnamon.
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7:18Come, let us drink our fill of love until the morning; / Let us delight ourselves with love.
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7:19For my husband is not at home; / He has gone on a long journey.
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7:20He has taken the money bag with him; / He will come home at the full moon.
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7:21With her great persuasiveness she beguiles him; / With her smooth talk she compels him.
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7:22He goes after her immediately, / As an ox goes to the slaughter, / Or as someone in fetters, to the correction of the fool,
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7:23Until an arrow pierces through his liver. / As a bird hastens to the snare, / So he does not know that this will cost him his life.
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7:24And now, my sons, listen to me, / And pay attention to the words of my mouth.
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7:25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; / Do not stray into her paths.
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7:26For many are those whom she has brought down wounded, / And numerous are all who have been slain by her.
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7:27Her house is the way to Sheol, / Going down to the chambers of death.
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