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\c 6
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\v 1 My son, if you set aside your money as a guarantee for your neighbor's loan,
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\q if you gave your promise for a loan of someone you do not know,
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\q
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\v 2 then you have laid a trap for yourself by your promise,
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\q and you have been caught by the words of your mouth.
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\q
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\v 3 In that case, my son, do this and save yourself,
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\q for you are at the mercy of your neighbor.
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\q Go and humble yourself and beg your neighbor to release you.
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\q
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\v 4 Give your eyes no sleep
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\q and your eyelids no slumber.
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\v 5 Save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
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\q like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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\v 6 Look at the ant, you lazy person,
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\q consider her ways, and be wise.
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\q
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\v 7 It has no commander,
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\q officer, or ruler,
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\q
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\v 8 yet it prepares its food in the summer,
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\q and during the harvest it stores up what it will eat.
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\v 9 How long will you sleep, you lazy person?
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\q When will you rise from your sleep?
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\v 10 "A little more sleep, a little more slumber,
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\q a little more folding of the hands to rest"—
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\q
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\v 11 and your poverty will come to you like a robber
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\q and your needs like an armed soldier.
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\v 12 A worthless person—a wicked man—
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\q lives by the crookedness of his speech,
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\v 13 winking his eyes, making signals with his feet,
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\q and pointing with his fingers.
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\v 14 He plots evil with deceit in his heart;
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\q he always stirs up discord.
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\v 15 Therefore his disaster will overtake him in an instant;
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\q in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
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\v 16 There are six things that Yahweh hates,
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\q seven that are disgusting to him:
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\q
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\v 17 The eyes of a proud person, a tongue that lies,
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\q hands that shed the blood of innocent people,
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\q
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\v 18 a heart that invents wicked schemes,
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\q feet that quickly run to do evil,
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\v 19 a witness who breathes out lies,
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\q and one who sows discord among brothers.
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\v 20 My son, obey the command of your father,
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\q and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
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\q
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\v 21 Always bind them on your heart;
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\q tie them about your neck.
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\q
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\v 22 When you walk, they will guide you;
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\q when you sleep, they will watch over you;
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\q and when you wake up, they will teach you.
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\v 23 For the commands are a lamp, and the teaching is a light;
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\q the reproofs of discipline are the way of life.
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\v 24 It keeps you from the immoral woman,
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\q from the smooth words of the adulteress.
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\q
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\v 25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty,
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\q and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes.
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\q
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\v 26 Sleeping with a prostitute can cost the price of a loaf of bread,
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\q but the wife of another may cost you your very life.
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\v 27 Can a man carry a fire against his chest
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\q without burning his clothes?
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\v 28 Can a man walk on hot coals
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\q without scorching his feet?
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\v 29 So is the man who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife;
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\q the one who sleeps with her will not go unpunished.
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\v 30 People do not despise a thief if he steals
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\q to satisfy his need when he is hungry.
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\q
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\v 31 Yet if he is caught, he will pay back seven times what he stole;
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\q he must give up everything of value in his house.
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\v 32 The one who commits adultery has no sense;
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\q the one who does it destroys himself.
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\v 33 Wounds and shame are what he deserves,
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\q and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
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\v 34 For jealousy makes a man furious;
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\q he will show no mercy when he takes his revenge.
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\v 35 He will accept no compensation,
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\q and he cannot be bought off, though you offer him many gifts.
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