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1 - My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,

2 - Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

3 - Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,

4 - Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

5 - Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

6 - Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

7 - Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,

8 - She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.

9 - Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?

10 - A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,

11 - And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

12 - A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking <FI>with<Fi> perverseness of mouth,

13 - Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,

14 - Frowardness <FI>is<Fi> in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

15 - Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken--and no healing.

16 - These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul.

17 - Eyes high--tongues false--And hands shedding innocent blood--

18 - A heart devising thoughts of vanity--Feet hasting to run to evil--

19 - A false witness <FI>who<Fi> doth breathe out lies--And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

20 - Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

21 - Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.

22 - In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked--it talketh <FI>with<Fi> thee.

23 - For a lamp <FI>is<Fi> the command, And the law a light, And a way of life <FI>are<Fi> reproofs of instruction,

24 - To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

25 - Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

26 - For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

27 - Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?

28 - Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?

29 - So <FI>is<Fi> he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.

30 - They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,

31 - And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.

32 - He who committeth adultery <FI>with<Fi> a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

33 - A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,

34 - For jealousy <FI>is<Fi> the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.

35 - He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!