Jul 13 - Proverbs 6-7
Proverbs
1My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,2if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,3then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.4Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;5save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.6Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.7Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,8she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.9How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,11and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.12A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,13winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger,14with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;15therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.16There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,18a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,19a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.20My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.21Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.22When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.23For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,24to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;26for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.27Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?28Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?29So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.30People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,31but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.32He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.33Wounds and dishonor will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.34For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.35He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.
1My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;2keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;3bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.4Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend,5to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.6For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,7and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,8passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house9in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.10And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.11She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home;12now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.13She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him,14"I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;15so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.16I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen;17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.18Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.19For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;20he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home."21With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.22All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast23till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.24And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.25Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths,26for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng.27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.