There are six [things] Yahweh hates, and seven [things are] abominations of his soul:

Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise.

It has no chief, officer, or ruler.

In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance.

How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep?

like a {robber} shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest--

Winking in his eye, shuffling in his foot, pointing in his fingers,

a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers.

A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with {deceitful speech}.

Upon {such a man}, suddenly shall his calamity come; in a moment he will be damaged and there is no healing.

My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger,

Can a man carry fire in his lap, and his clothes not burn?

perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.

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

a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil,

Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.

[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.

Bind them on your heart continually; tie them upon your neck.

[if] you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, [if] you are caught by the sayings of your mouth,

{When you walk}, she will lead you, {When you lie down}, she will watch over you, and [when] you awake, she will converse [with] you.

do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into {the palm of your neighbor's hand}: Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.

For [the] price of a woman, a prostitute, [is the] price of a loaf of bread, but the {woman belonging to a man} hunts precious life.

[People] do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry.

Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.

If a man walks upon the hot coals, will his feet not be burned?

Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished.

My child, keep [the] commandment of your father, and do not disregard [the] instruction of your mother.

For [like] a lamp [is] a commandment, and instruction [is] light, and the way of life [is the] reproof of discipline,

He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks {sense}, he destroys himself who does it.

For jealousy [is the] fury of a husband, and he will not show restraint on the day of revenge.

But [if] he is found, he will pay sevenfold, every possession of his house he shall give.

A wound and dishonor he will find, and his disgrace will not be wiped out.

He will not accept {any compensation}, and he will not be willing, though the bribe is large.