Proverbs 6:1-35 NET

[1] My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, if you have become a guarantor for a stranger, [2] if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken, [3] then, 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. [4] Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. [5] Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler. [6] Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe her ways and be wise! [7] It has no commander, overseer, or ruler, [8] yet it would prepare its food in the summer; it gathered at the harvest what it will eat. [9] How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep? [10] A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax, [11] and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man. [12] A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things; [13] he winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, and points with his fingers; [14] he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times. [15] Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy. [16] There are six things that the LORD hates, even seven things that are an abomination to him: [17] haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, [18] a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil, [19] a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members. [20] My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother. [21] Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck. [22] When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you. [23] For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life, [24] by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman. [25] Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes; [26] for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life. [27] Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes? [28] Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet? [29] So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment. [30] People do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need when he is hungry. [31] Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house. [32] A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, whoever does it destroys his own life. [33] He will be beaten and despised, and his reproach will not be wiped away; [34] for jealousy kindles a husband's rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge. [35] He will not consider any compensation; he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation.