Against suretyship;

6:1 My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor,
if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

6:2 You are trapped by the words of your mouth.
You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
seeing you have come into the hand of your neighbor.
Go, humble yourself.
Press your plea with your neighbor.

6:4 Give no sleep to your eyes,
nor slumber to your eyelids.

6:5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

idleness;

6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard.
Consider her ways, and be wise;

6:7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

6:8 provides her bread in the summer,
and gathers her food in the harvest.

6:9 How long will you sleep, sluggard?
When will you arise out of your sleep?

6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to sleep:

6:11 so your poverty will come as a robber,
and your scarcity as an armed man.

and mischievousness.

6:12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity,
is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

6:13 who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,
who motions with his fingers;

6:14 in whose heart is perverseness,
who devises evil continually,
who always sows discord.

6:15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.
He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

Seven things hateful to God.

6:16 There are six things which Yahweh hates;
yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood;

6:18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are swift in running to mischief,

6:19 a false witness who utters lies,
and he who sows discord among brothers.

The blessings of obedience.

6:20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

6:21 Bind them continually on your heart.
Tie them around your neck.

6:22 When you walk, it will lead you.
When you sleep, it will watch over you.
When you awake, it will talk with you.

6:23 For the commandment is a lamp,
and the law is light.
Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

6:24 to keep you from the immoral woman,
from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

The mischiefs of whoredom.

6:25 Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart,
neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

6:26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.
The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

6:27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap,
and his clothes not be burned?

6:28 Or can one walk on hot coals,
and his feet not be scorched?

6:29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife.
Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

6:30 Men don’t despise a thief,
if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

6:31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times.
He shall give all the wealth of his house.

6:32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.
He who does it destroys his own soul.

6:33 He will get wounds and dishonor.
His reproach will not be wiped away.

6:34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband.
He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.

6:35 He won’t regard any ransom,
neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.