1My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you have struck your hands with a stranger, 2you are snared with the words of your mouth; you are captured with the words of your mouth. 3My son, do this then, and deliver yourself when you come into the hand of your friend: go humble yourself and entreat your friend. 4Do not give sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. 5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. 6Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise; 7who, having no commander, overseer or ruler, 8provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. 9How long will you rest, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? 10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest; 11so shall your poverty come as one walking, and your need like an armed man. 12A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth, 13winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, pointing with his fingers. 14Perversity is in his heart, he devises evil all the time, he spreads strife. 15Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; he shall be broken in an instant without remedy. 16These six things Jehovah hates; yea, seven are an abomination to his soul: 17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18a heart that devises evil plans, feet hurrying to run to evil, 19a false witness who breathes lies, and he who spreads strife among brothers. 20My son, keep your father’s commands, and do not forsake the instruction of your mother. 21Bind them perpetually to your heart; tie them around your neck. 22When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall watch over you; and when you awake, it will speak with you. 23For the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life, 24to keep you from the evil woman, from the seductiveness of the foreign tongue. 25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, and do not let her captivate you with her eyelids. 26For on account of a promiscuous woman, a man comes to a loaf of bread; for the man’s wife hunts for the precious soul. 27Can a man take fire into his bosom and his clothes not be burned? 28Or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? 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 wealth of his house. 32He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; he who does so destroys his own soul. 33Wounds and dishonor shall befall him, and his reproach shall not be wiped away. 34For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance. 35He will not regard any bribes, nor will he yield to the giving of many gifts.