Proverbs 6 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^6:1 My son, if you have become surety for your fellow man, If you have stricken your hands for a stranger;
^6:2 You are snared with the words of your mouth, You are taken with the words of your mouth.
^6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, Seeing you have come into the hand of your fellow man: Go, humble yourself, and importune your fellow man;
^6:4 Don't give sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
^6:5 Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
^6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:
^6:7 Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,
^6:8 Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.
^6:9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
^6:10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
^6:11 So will your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.
^6:12 [A] worthless man, a man of iniquity, Is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
^6:13 Who winks with his eyes, who speaks with his feet, Who makes signs with his fingers;
^6:14 In whose heart is perverseness, Who devises evil continually, Who sows discord.
^6:15 Therefore will his calamity come suddenly; All of a sudden he will be broken, and that without remedy.
^6:16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are disgusting to his soul:
^6:17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
^6:18 A heart that devises wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,
^6:19 A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.
^6:20 My son, keep the commandment of your father, And don't forsake the law of your mother:
^6:21 Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them about your neck.
^6:22 When you walk, it will lead you; When you sleep, it will watch over you; And when you awake, it will talk with you.
^6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is a light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
^6:24 To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
^6:25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart; Neither let her take you with her eyelids.
^6:26 For on account of a prostitute [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunts for the precious soul.
^6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes not be burned?
^6:28 Or can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?
^6:29 So he who goes in to his fellow man's wife; Whoever has any sex with her will not be unpunished.
^6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steals To satisfy his soul when he is hungry:
^6:31 But if he is found, he will restore sevenfold; He will give all the substance of his house.
^6:32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He who does it destroys his own soul.
^6:33 Wounds and dishonor he will get; And his reproach will not be wiped away.
^6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a [noble] man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
^6:35 He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

Proverbs, Chapter 6