1My son, [if] you are surety for your friend, [if] you struck your palms with a stranger, 2you are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth. 3My son, do this now, and deliver yourself when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself and make your friend sure. 4Do not give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. 5Deliver yourself as a gazelle from the [hunter's] hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. 6Go to the ant, sluggard; consider her ways and be wise; 7who, having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8provides her food in the summer [and] gathers her food in the harvest. 9How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? 10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down; 11so shall your poverty come as one who travels, and your need like an armed man. 12A worthless person, a wicked man walks with a crooked mouth, 13winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, teaching with his fingers; 14perversity [is] in his heart; he [is] always planning mischief; he causes fighting. 15Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; he is quickly broken, and there is no healing. 16These six the LORD hates; yea, seven [are] hateful to his soul: 17a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18a heart that plots wicked plans, feet hurrying to run to evil, 19a false witness [who] speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers. 20My son, keep your father's commandments, and do not forsake the law of your mother; 21bind them upon your heart forever, tie them around your neck. 22When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and [when] you awake, it shall talk [with] you. 23For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life; 24to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. 25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; nor let her take you with her eyelids. 26For by means of a harlot [a man comes] to a piece of bread; and another man's wife will hunt for the precious life. 27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 29So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent. 30They do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; 31but [if] he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the goods of his house. 32Whoever commits adultery [with] a woman lacks understanding; he [who] does it destroys his own soul. 33He shall get a wound and dishonor; and his shame shall not be wiped away. 34For jealousy [is] the rage of a man; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. 35He will not take any ransom; nor will he be willing if you multiply the gifts.