Thematic Bible
Proverbs 6:1 (show verse)
My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger,
Proverbs 6:2 (show verse)
[if] you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, [if] you are caught by the sayings of your mouth,
Proverbs 6:3 (show verse)
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.
No Themes for this verse.
Proverbs 6:4 (show verse)
Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.
Proverbs 6:5 (show verse)
Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.
Proverbs 6:6 (show verse)
Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise.
Proverbs 6:7 (show verse)
It has no chief, officer, or ruler.
Proverbs 6:8 (show verse)
In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance.
Proverbs 6:9 (show verse)
How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep?
Proverbs 6:10 (show verse)
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest--
Proverbs 6:11 (show verse)
like a {robber} shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.
Proverbs 6:12 (show verse)
A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with {deceitful speech}.
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Proverbs 6:13 (show verse)
Winking in his eye, shuffling in his foot, pointing in his fingers,
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Proverbs 6:14 (show verse)
perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.
Proverbs 6:15 (show verse)
Upon {such a man}, suddenly shall his calamity come; in a moment he will be damaged and there is no healing.
Proverbs 6:16 (show verse)
There are six [things] Yahweh hates, and seven [things are] abominations of his soul:
Proverbs 6:17 (show verse)
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 6:18 (show verse)
a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil,
Proverbs 6:19 (show verse)
a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers.
Proverbs 6:20 (show verse)
My child, keep [the] commandment of your father, and do not disregard [the] instruction of your mother.
Proverbs 6:21 (show verse)
Bind them on your heart continually; tie them upon your neck.
Proverbs 6:22 (show verse)
{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.
Proverbs 6:23 (show verse)
For [like] a lamp [is] a commandment, and instruction [is] light, and the way of life [is the] reproof of discipline,
Proverbs 6:24 (show verse)
[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.
Proverbs 6:25 (show verse)
Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.
Proverbs 6:26 (show verse)
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.
Proverbs 6:27 (show verse)
Can a man carry fire in his lap, and his clothes not burn?
Proverbs 6:28 (show verse)
If a man walks upon the hot coals, will his feet not be burned?
Proverbs 6:29 (show verse)
Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished.
Proverbs 6:30 (show verse)
[People] do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry.
Proverbs 6:31 (show verse)
But [if] he is found, he will pay sevenfold, every possession of his house he shall give.
Proverbs 6:32 (show verse)
He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks {sense}, he destroys himself who does it.
Proverbs 6:33 (show verse)
A wound and dishonor he will find, and his disgrace will not be wiped out.
Proverbs 6:34 (show verse)
For jealousy [is the] fury of a husband, and he will not show restraint on the day of revenge.
Proverbs 6:35 (show verse)
He will not accept {any compensation}, and he will not be willing, though the bribe is large.