^[1]  My son, if you be surety for your friend, if you have stricken your hand with a stranger,

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^[2]  You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

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^[3]  Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you are come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.

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^[4]  Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

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^[5]  Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. ¶

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^[6]  Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

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^[7]  Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

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^[8]  Provides her meat in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

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^[9]  How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

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^[10]  Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

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^[11]  So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man. ¶

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^[12]  A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a fraudulent mouth.

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^[13]  He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;

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^[14]  Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

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^[15]  Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. ¶

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^[16]  These six things does the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination to him:

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^[17]  A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

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^[18]  An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

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^[19]  A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers. ¶

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^[20]  My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:

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^[21]  Bind them continually on your heart, and tie them about your neck.

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^[22]  When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you wake, it shall talk with you.

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^[23]  For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

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^[24]  To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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^[25]  Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

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^[26]  For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

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^[27]  Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

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^[28]  Can one go on hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

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^[29]  So he that goes in to his neighbor’s wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.

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^[30]  Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

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^[31]  But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

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^[32]  But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.

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^[33]  A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

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^[34]  For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

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^[35]  He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

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