These six things doth the LORD hate, and the seventh he utterly abhorreth:

Go to the Emmet, thou sluggard: consider her ways, and learn to be wise.

She hath no guide, no teacher, no leader:

yet in the summer she provideth her meat, and gathereth her food together in the harvest.

How long wilt thou sleep, thou sluggish man? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.

Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thy hands together yet a little, that thou mayest sleep:

he winketh with his eyes, he tokeneth with his feet, he pointeth with his fingers,

a false witness that bringeth up lies, and such one as soweth discord among brethren.

An ungodly person, a wicked man goeth with a froward mouth,

Therefore shall his destruction come hastily upon him: suddenly shall he be all broken, and not healed.

My son, if thou be surety for thy neighbour, thou hast fastened thine hand with another man:

May a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burnt?

he is ever imagining mischief and frowardness in his heart, and causeth discord.

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

a heart that goeth about with wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to do mischief,

that thou lust not after her beauty in thine heart, and lest thou be taken with her fair looks.

that they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the harlot:

Put them up together in thine heart, and bind them about thy neck.

yea, thou art bound with thine own words, and taken with thine own speech.

That they may lead thee where thou goest, preserve thee when thou art asleep, and that when thou awakest, thou mayest talk of them.

Therefore my son, do this: and thou shalt be discharged, when thou art come into thy neighbour's danger. Go thy ways then soon, and entreat thy neighbour:

A harlot will make a man to beg his bread, but a married woman will hunt for the precious life.

Men do not utterly despise a thief, that stealeth to satisfy his soul, when he is hungry:

Save thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

let not thine eyes sleep, nor thine eyelids slumber.

Or can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be hurt?

Even so, whosoever goeth in to his neighbour's wife, and toucheth her, can not be unguilty.

My son, keep thy father's commandments, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

For the commandment is a lantern, and the law a light: yea, chastening and nurture is the way of life:

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman, he is a fool: and destroyeth his own soul.

For the jealousy and wrath of the man will not be intreated;

But if he may be gotten, he restoreth again seven times as much, or else he maketh recompense with all the goods of his house.

He getteth himself also shame and dishonour, such as shall never be put out.

no, though thou wouldest offer him great gifts to make amends, he will not receive them.