| 1: My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast
stricken thy hand with a stranger, |
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| 2: Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken
with the words of thy mouth. |
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Do this now, my son, deliver thyself, when thou art come into
the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
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| 4: Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
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| 5: Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a
bird from the hand of the fowler. |
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| 6: Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
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| 7: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, |
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| 8: Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in
the harvest. |
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| 9: How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep? |
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| 10: Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
hands to sleep: |
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| 11: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy
want as an armed man. |
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| 12: A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
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| 13: He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he
teacheth with his fingers; |
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| 14: Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief
continually; he soweth discord. |
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| 15: Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he
be broken without remedy. |
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| 16: These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an
abomination unto him: |
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| 17: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent
blood, |
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| 18: An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be
swift in running to mischief, |
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| 19: A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth
discord among brethren. |
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| 20: My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the
law of thy mother: |
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| 21: Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about
thy neck. |
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| 22: When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it
shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. |
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| 23: For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and
reproofs of instruction are the way of life: |
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| 24: To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the
tongue of a strange woman. |
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| 25: Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her
take thee with her eyelids. |
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| 26: For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece
of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. |
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| 27: Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be
burned? |
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| 28: Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
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| 29: So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever
toucheth her shall not be innocent. |
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| 30: Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul
when he is hungry; |
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| 31: But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give
all the substance of his house. |
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| 32: But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh
understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. |
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| 33: A wound and shonour shall he get; and his reproach shall
not be wiped away. |
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| 34: For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not
spare in the day of vengeance. |
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| 35: He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content,
though thou givest many gifts. |
