KJ3 Literal Translation
Proverbs 6
Against suretyship, idleness, and mischievousness. Seven things hateful to Jehovah.
1My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you struck your palms with an alien,
2you are snared with the words of your mouth; you are captured with the words of your own mouth.
3My son, do this then, and save yourself when you come into the palm of your friend: go, humble yourself and be bold to your friend.
4Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.
5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hand, and as a bird from the fowler's hand.
6Go to the ant, lazy man; see her ways and be wise;
7who, having no leader, overseer or ruler,
8provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
9Until when will you lie down, O lazy man? When will you arise out of your sleep?
10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down;
11so shall your poverty come as one walking about, and your need like a man of a shield.
12A worthless man, an evil man, walks with crookedness of mouth,
13winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, teaching with his fingers.
14Perversity is in his heart; he is plotting evil things at every time, he sends out strife.
15On account of this, calamity shall come suddenly; he is broken quickly and there is no healing.
16These six things Jehovah hates; yea, seven are disgusting things to his soul;
17a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18a heart that devises iniquity, feet hurrying to run to evil things,
19a lying witness who breathes lies, and he who causes strife among brothers.
20My son, keep your father's commands, and do not forsake the law of your mother.
21Bind them to your heart continually; tie them around your neck.
22When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall watch over you; and when you awaken, it will muse with you.
23For the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light; and reproofs of instruction are a way of life,
24to keep you from the evil woman, from tongue of flattery of the strange woman.
25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, and do not let her take you with her eyelids,
26For through a woman committing adultery, a man comes to the last loaf of bread, and another man's wife hunts for the precious soul.
27Can a man take fire into his bosom and his clothes not be burned?
28Or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be burned?
29So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; everyone touching her shall not be free from guilt.
30They do not despise a thief, if he steals to fill his appetite when he is hungry.
31But if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the goods of his house.
32He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; he who does it is a destroyer of his own soul.
33He shall find a wound and dishonor, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
34For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
35He will not lift up the face of every ransom, nor will he consent when you multiply the bribes.
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