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Proverbs 6

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,

2 You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

3 Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.

4 Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;

5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

6 Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

7 Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

8 She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

10 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

12 A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

13 Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;

14 His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

15 For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

16 Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:

17 Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

18 A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

19 A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

22 In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.

23 For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

27 May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?

28 Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?

29 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.

30 Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:

31 But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.

32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

33 Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.

34 For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.

35 He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 Beni (my son), if thou put up collateral for thy re’a, if thou hast shaken hands in pledge with a zar (stranger),

2 Thou art snared with the words of thy peh (mouth), thou art trapped with the words of thy peh (mouth).

3 Do this now, beni (my son), and deliver thyself, since thou art come into the palm of thy re’a; go, humble thyself, and plead with thy re’a.

4 Give not sheynah to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

5 Deliver thyself as a gazelle from the yad [of the hunter], and as a tzippor (bird) from the yad of the fowler.

6 Go to the nemalah (ant), thou atzel (sluggard, lazy one); consider her drakhim (ways), and be chacham (wise);

7 Which having no katzin (officer, leader) or shoter (policeman) or moshel,

8 Prepareth her lechem in the kayitz (summer), and gathereth her food in the katzir (harvest).

9 Ad mosai wilt thou lie down, O atzel (sluggard, lazy one)? When wilt thou arise out of thy sheynah (sleep)?

10 Yet a little sheynot (sleep [pl.]), a little slumber, a little folding of the yadayim to sleep;

11 So shall thy poverty come as a prowler, and thy need as an ish mogen (man of armor).

12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walketh with a perverse peh (mouth).

13 He winketh with his eyes, he shuffleth with his regel, he pointeth with his fingers;

14 Tahpukhot (perversity) is in his lev, he deviseth rah continually; he stirs up midanim (contention, strife, discord [pl.]).

15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be destoyed without marpeh (remedy).

16 These shesh (six) things doth Hashem hate; indeed, shevah (seven) are an abomination unto His Nefesh;

17 Haughty eyes, a lashon sheker, and hands guilty of shefach dahm naki,

18 A lev that deviseth wicked machshevot (plans), raglayim that are swift in running to ra’ah,

19 An ed sheker that speaketh lies, and he that soweth midanim (contention, strife, discords) among achim.

20 Beni (my son), keep the mitzvat Avicha, and forsake not the torat Immecha;

21 Bind them tamid (continually) upon thine lev, and tie them about thy neck.

22 When thou goest, it shall guide thee; when thou sleepest, it shall be shomer over thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

23 For the mitzvah is a ner (lamp); and torah an ohr; and tokhakhot musar (reproofs of discipline) are the Derech Chayyim (Life Lane);

24 To be shomer over thee, keeping thee from the eshet rah, from the smooth lashon of the nokhriyah (strange woman).

25 Lust not after her beauty in thine lev; neither let her allure thee with her eyelids.

26 For by means of an isha zonah a man is reduced to a kikar lechem; and [another] man’s wife will prey on the nefesh yekara (precious soul).

27 Can a man take eish in his kheyk, and his clothes not be burned?

28 Can one walk upon hot coals, and his regel not be burned?

29 So is he that goeth into his eshet re’a; whosoever toucheth her shall not go unpunished.

30 Men do not despise a ganav if he steal to satisfy his nefesh when he is starving;

31 But if he be found out, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give hon (substance, wealth) of his bais;

32 But the no’ef (one who committeth adultery) with an isha lacketh lev [of understanding]; he that doeth it destroyeth his own nefesh.

33 A nega [see Isaiah 53:8 for Moshiach’s nega taken for unfaithful Israel] and dishonor shall he get; and his cherpah (reproach) shall not be wiped away.

34 For kina (jealousy) is the chamat gever (husband’s rage); therefore he will not spare in the yom nakam (day of vengeance).

35 He will not regard kofer (compensation); neither will he be the appeased, though shochad (bribe) be great.