My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, (6:1)

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth (6:2)

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend (6:3)

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids (6:4)

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler (6:5)

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: (6:6)

Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, (6:7)

Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest (6:8)

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? (6:9)

[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: (6:10)

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man (6:11)

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth (6:12)

He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; (6:13)

Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord (6:14)

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy (6:15)

These six [things] doth the Lord hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him: (6:16)

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, (6:17)

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, (6:18)

A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren (6:19)

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: (6:20)

Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck (6:21)

When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with thee (6:22)

For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life: (6:23)

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman (6:24)

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids (6:25)

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 (6:26)

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? (6:27)

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? (6:28)

So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent (6:29)

[Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; (6:30)

But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house (6:31)

[But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul (6:32)

A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away (6:33)

For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance (6:34)

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts (6:35)

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