These six things doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

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

which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

provideth her bread in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!

he winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;

a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.

A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly: in a moment shall he be broken, and without remedy.

My son, if thou hast become surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand for a stranger,

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

deceits are in his heart; he deviseth mischief at all times, he soweth discords.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;

a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations; feet that are swift in running to mischief;

Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck:

thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

when thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, since thou hast come into the hand of thy friend: go, humble thyself, and be urgent with thy friend.

for by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a loaf of bread, and another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.

They do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry:

deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:

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

So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance;

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

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

he will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content though thou multipliest thy gifts.