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6:1  Son, if you endorse a note for someone you hardly know, guaranteeing his debt, you are in serious trouble.
6:2  You may have trapped yourself by your agreement.
6:3  Quick! Get out of it if you possibly can! Swallow your pride; don’t let embarrassment stand in the way. Go and beg to have your name erased.
6:4  Don’t put it off. Do it now. Don’t rest until you do.
6:5  If you can get out of this trap you have saved yourself like a deer that escapes from a hunter or a bird from the net.
6:6  Take a lesson from the ants, you lazy fellow. Learn from their ways and be wise!
6:7  For though they have no king to make them work,
6:8  yet they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.
6:9  But you—all you do is sleep. When will you wake up?
6:10  “Let me sleep a little longer!” Sure, just a little more!
6:11  And as you sleep, poverty creeps upon you like a robber and destroys you; want attacks you in full armor.
6:12  Let me describe for you a worthless and a wicked man; first, he is a constant liar; he signals his true intentions to his friends with eyes and feet and fingers.
6:13  Let me describe for you a worthless and a wicked man; first, he is a constant liar; he signals his true intentions to his friends with eyes and feet and fingers.
6:14  He is always thinking up new schemes to swindle people. He stirs up trouble everywhere.
6:15  But he will be destroyed suddenly, broken beyond hope of healing.
6:16  For there are six things the Lord hates—no, seven: haughtiness, lying, murdering, plotting evil, eagerness to do wrong, a false witness, sowing discord among brothers.
6:17  For there are six things the Lord hates—no, seven: haughtiness, lying, murdering, plotting evil, eagerness to do wrong, a false witness, sowing discord among brothers.
6:18  For there are six things the Lord hates—no, seven: haughtiness, lying, murdering, plotting evil, eagerness to do wrong, a false witness, sowing discord among brothers.
6:19  For there are six things the Lord hates—no, seven: haughtiness, lying, murdering, plotting evil, eagerness to do wrong, a false witness, sowing discord among brothers.
6:20  Young man, obey your father and your mother.
6:21  Take to heart all of their advice; keep in mind everything they tell you.
6:22  Every day and all night long their counsel will lead you and save you from harm; when you wake up in the morning, let their instructions guide you into the new day.
6:23  For their advice is a beam of light directed into the dark corners of your mind to warn you of danger and to give you a good life.
6:24  Their counsel will keep you far away from prostitutes, with all their flatteries, and unfaithful wives of other men.
6:25  Don’t lust for their beauty. Don’t let their coyness seduce you.
6:26  For a prostitute will bring a man to poverty, and an adulteress may cost him his very life.
6:27  Can a man hold fire against his chest and not be burned?
6:28  Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet?
6:29  So it is with the man who commits adultery with another’s wife. He shall not go unpunished for this sin.
6:30  Excuses might even be found for a thief if he steals when he is starving!
6:31  But even so, he is fined seven times as much as he stole, though it may mean selling everything in his house to pay it back.
6:32  But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys his own soul.
6:33  Wounds and constant disgrace are his lot,
6:34  for the woman’s husband will be furious in his jealousy, and he will have no mercy on you in his day of vengeance.
6:35  You won’t be able to buy him off no matter what you offer.