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Proverbs 6

The Message Bible MSG

1 Dear friend, if you've gone into hock with your neighbor or locked yourself into a deal with a stranger,

2 If you've impulsively promised the shirt off your back and now find yourself shivering out in the cold,

3 Friend, don't waste a minute, get yourself out of that mess. You're in that man's clutches! Go, put on a long face; act desperate.

4 Don't procrastinate - there's no time to lose.

5 Run like a deer from the hunter, fly like a bird from the trapper! A Lesson from the Ant

6 You lazy fool, look at an ant. Watch it closely; let it teach you a thing or two.

7 Nobody has to tell it what to do.

8 All summer it stores up food; at harvest it stockpiles provisions.

9 So how long are you going to laze around doing nothing? How long before you get out of bed?

10 A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy - do you know what comes next?

11 Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, poverty your permanent houseguest! Always Cooking Up Something Nasty

12 Riffraff and rascals talk out of both sides of their mouths.

13 They wink at each other, they shuffle their feet, they cross their fingers behind their backs.

14 Their perverse minds are always cooking up something nasty, always stirring up trouble.

15 Catastrophe is just around the corner for them, a total smash-up, their lives ruined beyond repair. Seven Things God Hates

16 Here are six things God hates, and one more that he loathes with a passion:

17 eyes that are arrogant, a tongue that lies, hands that murder the innocent,

18 a heart that hatches evil plots, feet that race down a wicked track,

19 a mouth that lies under oath, a troublemaker in the family. Warning on Adultery

20 Good friend, follow your father's good advice; don't wander off from your mother's teachings.

21 Wrap yourself in them from head to foot; wear them like a scarf around your neck.

22 Wherever you walk, they'll guide you; whenever you rest, they'll guard you; when you wake up, they'll tell you what's next.

23 For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.

24 They'll protect you from wanton women, from the seductive talk of some temptress.

25 Don't lustfully fantasize on her beauty, nor be taken in by her bedroom eyes.

26 You can buy an hour with a whore for a loaf of bread, but a wanton woman may well eat you alive.

27 Can you build a fire in your lap and not burn your pants?

28 Can you walk barefoot on hot coals and not get blisters?

29 It's the same when you have sex with your neighbor's wife: Touch her and you'll pay for it. No excuses.

30 Hunger is no excuse for a thief to steal;

31 When he's caught he has to pay it back, even if he has to put his whole house in hock.

32 Adultery is a brainless act, soul-destroying, self-destructive;

33 Expect a bloody nose, a black eye, and a reputation ruined for good.

34 For jealousy detonates rage in a cheated husband; wild for revenge, he won't make allowances.

35 Nothing you say or pay will make it all right; neither bribes nor reason will satisfy him.

New International Version NIV

1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,

2 you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth.

3 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 Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.

5 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 sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!

7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,

8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

9 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—

11 and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

12 A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

13 who winks maliciously with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,

14 who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.

15 Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.

16 There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:

17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,

19 a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.

20 My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

21 Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck.

22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

23 For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life,

24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.

25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.

27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?

28 Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?

29 So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

30 People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

31 Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.

32 But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

33 Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away.

34 For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

35 He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse a bribe, however great it is.