en_cepher - Pro 6 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ MY son, if you be surety for your friend, if you have stricken your hand with a stranger,

² You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

³ Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you are come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.

⁴ Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

⁵ Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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

⁷ Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

⁸ Provides her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

⁹ How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

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

¹¹ So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man.

¹² A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a froward mouth.

¹³ He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;

¹⁴ Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

¹⁵ Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

¹⁶ These six things Yahuah hates: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

¹⁷ A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁸ A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

¹⁹ A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

²⁰ My son, guard your father's commandment, and forsake not the Torah of your mother:

²¹ Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them about your neck.

²² When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall guard you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp; and the Torah is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

²⁴ To guard you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

²⁵ Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

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.

²⁷ Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

²⁸ Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

²⁹ So he that goes in to his neighbor's woman; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.

³⁰ Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

³¹ But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

³² But whoso breaks wedlock with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.

³³ A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

³⁴ For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

³⁵ He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.