Proverbs 6:1-19 (Revised Standard Version)
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My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger;
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if you are snared in the utterance of your lips, caught in the words of your mouth;
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then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hasten, and importune your neighbor.
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Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
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save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
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Without having any chief, officer or ruler,
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she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.
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How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
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and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond, and want like an armed man.
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A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,
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winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger,
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with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;
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therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
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There are six things which the LORD hates, seven which are an abomination to him:
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haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,
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a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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