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1 My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to another,
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My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,
2 you are snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth.
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you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth.
3 So do this, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hurry, and plead with your neighbor.
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So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go—to the point of exhaustion—and give your neighbor no rest!
4 Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
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Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.
5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6 Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
7 Without having any chief or officer or ruler,
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It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
8 it prepares its food in summer, and gathers its sustenance in harvest.
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yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
9 How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?
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How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—
11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.
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and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
12 A scoundrel and a villain goes around with crooked speech,
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A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
13 winking the eyes, shuffling the feet, pointing the fingers,
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who winks maliciously with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,
14 with perverted mind devising evil, continually sowing discord;
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who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.
15 on such a one calamity will descend suddenly; in a moment, damage beyond repair.
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Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.
16 There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
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There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that hurry to run to evil,
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a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19 a lying witness who testifies falsely, and one who sows discord in a family.
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a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
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