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Book of Proverbs 765

8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not Chapter 6
nigh the doors of her house.
9 Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou
years to the cruel. hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger,
2 Thou art ensnared with the words of thy
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength,
mouth, and caught with thy own words.
and thy labours be in another man’s house,
3 Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and de-
11 And thou mourn at the last, when thou
liver thyself: because thou art fallen into the
shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say;
hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste,
12 Why have I hated instruction, and my
stir up thy friend:
heart consented not to reproof,
4 Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy
13 And have not heard the voice of them that eyelids slumber.
taught me, and have not inclined my ear to mas- 5 Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and
ters? as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
14 I have almost been in all evil, in the midst 6 Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her
of the church and of the congregation. ways, and learn wisdom:
15 Drink water out of thy own cistern, and 7 Which, although she hath no guide, nor mas-
the streams of thy own well: ter, nor captain,
16 Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and 8 Provideth her meat for herself in the sum-
in the streets divide thy waters. mer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
17 Keep them to thyself alone, neither let 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when
wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
strangers be partakers with thee.
10 Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber
18 Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with
a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:
the wife of thy youth:
11 And want shall come upon thee, as a trav-
19 Let her be thy dearest hind, and most
eller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou
agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at
be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain,
all times: be thou delighted continually with her
and want shall flee far from thee.
love.
12 A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable
20 Why art thou seduced, my son, by a
man, walketh with a perverse mouth,
strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom
13 He winketh with the eyes, presseth with
of another?
the foot, speaketh with the finger.
21 The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and 14 With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and
considereth all his steps. at all times he soweth discord.
22 His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he 15 To such a one his destruction shall
is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins. presently come, and he shall suddenly be de-
23 He shall die, because he hath not received stroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.
instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he 16 Six things there are, which the Lord hateth,
shall be deceived. and the seventh his soul detesteth: