M<\/span>y son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.<\/span> <\/p>\n