Parental warnings
6:1Beni (my son):
If you be surety for your friend, [if] you have stricken your hand with a stranger,
6:2 You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.
6:3 Do this now, Beni (my son), and deliver yourself, when you art come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.
6:4 Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
6:5 Deliver thyself as a tzevi (gazelle) from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
6:7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
6:8 Provids her meat in the summer, [and] gathers her food in the harvest.
6:9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?
6:10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
6:11 So shall your poverty come as one that travells, and your want as an armed man.
6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a froward mouth.
6:13 He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teachs with his fingers;
6:14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviss mischief continually; he sows discord.
6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
6:16 These six [things] doth YHVH (יהוה) hate:
yea, seven* [are] an abomination* to Him:
6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
6:18 An heart that deviss wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
6:19 A false witness [that] speaks lies, and *he that sows discord among brethren.*
6:20 Beni (my son):
Keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the torat of your mother:
6:21 Bind them continually upon your heart, [and] tie them about your neck.
6:22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
6:23 For the mitzvot [is] a lamp; and the Torah Ohr (light); and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
6:24 To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the lashon (tongue) of a nokhriyah (strange woman).
6:25 Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.
6:26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
6:28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
6:29 So he that goes in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.
6:30 [Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
6:31 But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
6:32 [But] whoso committs adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he [that] dos it destroys his own soul.
6:33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
6:34 For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
6:35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you givest many gifts.