Proverbs 6:1-19

11My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, and have become a guarantor for a stranger,

2if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,

3then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.

4Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.

6Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!

7It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,

8yet it prepares its food in the summer; it gathers at the harvest what it will eat.

9How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?

10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,

11and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.

12A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;

13he winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, and points with his fingers;

14he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.

15Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

16There are six things that the Lord hates, even seven things 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 are swift to run to evil,

19a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members.