Proverbs 6:1-35 CSB

[1] My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor or entered into an agreement with a stranger, [2] you have been snared by the words of your mouth trapped by the words from your mouth. [3] Do this, then, my son, and free yourself, for you have put yourself in your neighbor's power: Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor. [4] Don't give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. [5] Escape like a gazelle from a hunter, like a bird from a hunter's trap. [6] Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise. [7] Without leader, administrator, or ruler, [8] it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food during harvest. [9] How long will you stay in bed, you slacker? When will you get up from your sleep? [10] A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest, [11] and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit. [12] A worthless person, a wicked man goes around speaking dishonestly, [13] winking his eyes, signaling with his feet, and gesturing with his fingers. [14] He always plots evil with perversity in his heart; he stirs up trouble. [15] Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly; he will be shattered instantly, beyond recovery. [16] The LORD hates six things; in fact, seven are detestable to him: [17] arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, [18] a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet eager to run to evil, [19] a lying witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up trouble among brothers. [20] My son, keep your father's command, and don't reject your mother's teaching. [21] Always bind them to your heart; tie them around your neck. [22] When you walk here and there, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you. [23] For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life. [24] They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman. [25] Don't lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes. [26] For a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man goes after a precious life. [27] Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned? [28] Can a man walk on burning coals without scorching his feet? [29] So it is with the one who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished. [30] People don't despise the thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry. [31] Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much; he must give up all the wealth in his house. [32] The one who commits adultery lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself. [33] He will get a beating and dishonor, and his disgrace will never be removed. [34] For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge. [35] He will not be appeased by anything or be persuaded by lavish bribes.