Proverbs 6:1-19

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.