1My son, if you have put up security…
2if you have been trapped by the words…
3then do this, my son, to free yourself,…
4Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber…
5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand…
6Walk in the manner of the ant, O…
7Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,
8it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers…
9How long will you lie there, O slacker?…
10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little…
11and poverty will come upon you like a…
12A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with…
13winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and…
14With deceit in his heart he devises evil;…
15Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in…
16There are six things that the LORD hates,…
17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed…
18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that…
19a false witness who gives false testimony, and…
20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do…
21Bind them always upon your heart; tie them…
22When you walk, they will guide you; when…
23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching…
24to keep you from the evil woman, from…
25Do not lust in your heart for her…
26For the levy of the prostitute is poverty,…
27Can a man embrace fire and his clothes…
28Can a man walk on hot coals without…
29So is he who sleeps with another man’s…
30Men do not despise the thief if he…
31Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he…
32He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does…
33Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his…
34For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will…
35He will not be appeased by any ransom,…
