Provérbios 6

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1 Meu filho, se você serviu de fiador do seu próximo,se, com um aperto de mãos, empenhou-se por um estranho
2 e caiu na armadilha das palavras que você mesmo disse,está prisioneiro do que falou.
3 Então, meu filho,uma vez que você caiu nas mãos do seu próximo,vá e humilhe-se;insista, incomode o seu próximo!
4 Não se entregue ao sono,não procure descansar.
5 Livre-se como a gazela se livra do caçador,como a ave do laço que a pode prender.
6 Observe a formiga, preguiçoso,reflita nos caminhos dela e seja sábio!
7 Ela não tem nem chefe,nem supervisor, nem governante,
8 e ainda assim armazena as suas provisões no verãoe na época da colheita ajunta o seu alimento.
9 Até quando você vai ficar deitado, preguiçoso?Quando se levantará de seu sono?
10 Tirando uma soneca, cochilando um pouco,cruzando um pouco os braços para descansar,
11 a sua pobreza o surpreenderá como um assaltante,e a sua necessidade sobrevirá como um homem armado sobre você.
12 O perverso não tem caráter.Anda de um lado para o outro dizendo coisas maldosas;
13 pisca o olho, arrasta os pése faz sinais com os dedos;
14 tem no coração o propósito de enganar;planeja sempre o mal e semeia discórdia.
15 Por isso a desgraça se abaterá repentinamente sobre ele;de um golpe será destruído irremediavelmente.
16 Há seis coisas que o SENHOR odeia,sete coisas que ele detesta:
17 olhos altivos, língua mentirosa,mãos que derramam sangue inocente,
18 coração que traça planos perversos,pés que se apressam para fazer o mal,
19 a testemunha falsa que espalha mentirase aquele que provoca discórdia entre irmãos.

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20 Meu filho, obedeça aos mandamentos de seu paie não abandone o ensino de sua mãe.
21 Amarre-os sempre junto ao coração;ate-os ao redor do pescoço.
22 Quando você andar, eles o guiarão;quando dormir, o estarão protegendo;quando acordar, falarão com você.
23 Pois o mandamento é lâmpada,a instrução é luz,e as advertências da disciplinasão o caminho que conduz à vida;
24 eles o protegerão da mulher imoral,e dos falsos elogios da mulher leviana.[a]
25 Não cobice em seu coração a sua belezanem se deixe seduzir por seus olhares,
26 pois o preço de uma prostituta é um pedaço de pão,mas a adúltera sai à caça de vidas preciosas.
27 Pode alguém colocar fogo no peitosem queimar a roupa?
28 Pode alguém andar sobre brasassem queimar os pés?
29 Assim acontece com quem se deita com mulher alheia;ninguém que a toque ficará sem castigo.
30 O ladrão não é desprezadose, faminto, rouba para matar a fome.[b]
31 Contudo, se for pego, deverá pagar sete vezes o que roubou,embora isso lhe custe tudo o que tem em casa.
32 Mas o homem que comete adultério não tem juízo;todo aquele que assim procede a si mesmo se destrói.
33 Sofrerá ferimentos e vergonha,e a sua humilhação jamais se apagará,
34 pois o ciúme desperta a fúria do marido,que não terá misericórdia quando se vingar.
35 Não aceitará nenhuma compensação;os melhores presentes não o acalmarão.

Provérbios 6 Commentary

Chapter 6

Cautions against rash suretiship. (1-5) A rebuke to slothfulness. (6-11) Seven things hateful to God. (12-19) Exhortations to walk according to God's commandments. (20-35)

Verses 1-5 If we live as directed by the word of God, we shall find it profitable even in this present world. We are stewards of our worldly substance, and have to answer to the Lord for our disposal of it; to waste it in rash schemes, or such plans as may entangle us in difficulties and temptations, is wrong. A man ought never to be surety for more than he is able and willing to pay, and can afford to pay, without wronging his family; he ought to look upon every sum he is engaged for, as his own debt. If we must take all this care to get our debts to men forgiven, much more to obtain forgiveness with God. Humble thyself to him, make sure of Christ as thy Friend, to plead for thee; pray earnestly that thy sins may be pardoned, and that thou mayest be kept from going down to the pit.

Verses 6-11 Diligence in business is every man's wisdom and duty; not so much that he may attain worldly wealth, as that he may not be a burden to others, or a scandal to the church. The ants are more diligent than slothful men. We may learn wisdom from the meanest insects, and be shamed by them. Habits of indolence and indulgence grow upon people. Thus life runs to waste; and poverty, though at first at a distance, gradually draws near, like a traveller; and when it arrives, is like an armed man, too strong to be resisted. All this may be applied to the concerns of our souls. How many love their sleep of sin, and their dreams of worldly happiness! Shall we not seek to awaken such? Shall we not give diligence to secure our own salvation?

Verses 12-19 If the slothful are to be condemned, who do nothing, much more those that do all the ill they can. Observe how such a man is described. He says and does every thing artfully, and with design. His ruin shall come without warning, and without relief. Here is a list of things hateful to God. Those sins are in a special manner provoking to God, which are hurtful to the comfort of human life. These things which God hates, we must hate in ourselves; it is nothing to hate them in others. Let us shun all such practices, and watch and pray against them; and avoid, with marked disapproval, all who are guilty of them, whatever may be their rank.

Verses 20-35 The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own nature, of what evil consequence it is, and how certainly it destroys the spiritual life in the soul, we shall not wonder that the cautions against it are so often repeated. Let us notice the subjects of this chapter. Let us remember Him who willingly became our Surety, when we were strangers and enemies. And shall Christians, who have such prospects, motives, and examples, be slothful and careless? Shall we neglect what is pleasing to God, and what he will graciously reward? May we closely watch every sense by which poison can enter our minds or affections.

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Chapter Summary

INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS 6

In this chapter the wise man dissuades from rash suretyship; exposes the sin of idleness; describes a wicked man; makes mention of seven things hateful to God; exhorts to attend to parental instructions and precepts, and cautions against adultery. Suretyship is described, Pr 6:1; and represented as a snare and a net, in which men are taken, Pr 6:2; and advice is given what to do in such a case, for safety in it, and deliverance from it, Pr 6:3-5; The sin of slothfulness is exposed, by observing the industry of the ant, Pr 6:6-8; by expostulating with the sluggard for his continuance in sloth, and by mimicking him, Pr 6:9,10; and by the poverty it brings upon him, Pr 6:11. Then a naughty wicked man is described, by his mouth, eyes, feet, fingers, and heart, whose ruin is sudden and inevitable, Pr 6:11-15. The seven things hateful to God are particularly named, Pr 6:16-19. And next the exhortation in some preceding chapters is reassumed, to attend to the instructions of parents; which will be found ornamental, pleasant, and useful, Pr 6:20-23. Especially to preserve from the lewd woman cautioned against, Pr 6:24,25; whose company is dissuaded from; on account of the extreme poverty and distress she brings persons to, and even danger of life, Pr 6:26; from the unavoidable ruin such come into, Pr 6:27-29; from the sin of uncleanness being greater than that of theft, Pr 6:30,31; from the folly the adulterer betrays; from the destruction of his soul, and the disgrace he brings on himself, Pr 6:32,33; and from the rage and irreconcilable offence of the husband of the adulteress, Pr 6:34,35.

Provérbios 6 Commentaries

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