These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

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

Who having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

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

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

So shall your poverty come upon you like a vagabond, and your want like an armed man.

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

He winks with his eyes, he signals with his feet, he motions with his fingers;

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

A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.

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

My son, if you become surety for your friend, if you have struck your hand with a stranger,

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

Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil continually; he sows discord.

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

A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,

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

To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a seductress.

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

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

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

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and plead with your friend.

For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will prey upon his precious life.

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

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

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

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

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

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:

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

But whosoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.

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

But if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give up all the goods of his house.

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

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he be appeased, though you give many gifts.