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1 My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you struck your palms with a stranger,

2 you are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

3 My son, do this now, and deliver yourself when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself and make your friend sure.

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4 Do not give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

5 Deliver yourself as a gazelle from the hunter's hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

6 Go to the ant, sluggard; consider her ways and be wise;

7 who, having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

8 provides her food 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?

10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down;

11 so shall your poverty come as one who travels, and your need like an armed man.

12 A worthless person, a wicked man walks with a crooked mouth,

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13 winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, teaching with his fingers;

14 perversity is in his heart; he is always planning mischief; he causes fighting.

15 Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; he is quickly broken, and there is no healing.

16 These six Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul:

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17 a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

18 a heart that plots wicked plans, feet hurrying to run to evil,

19 a false witness who speaks lies, and he who causes fighting among brothers.

20 My son, keep your father's commandments, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

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21 bind them upon your heart forever, tie them around your neck.

22 When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.

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

24 to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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25 Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; nor let her take you with her eyelids.

26 For by means of a harlot a man comes to a piece of bread; and another man's wife will hunt for the precious life.

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

28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

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29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.

30 They do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

31 but if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the goods of his house.

32 Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul.

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33 He shall get a wound and dishonor; and his shame shall not be wiped away.

34 For jealousy is the rage of a man; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

35 He will not take any ransom; nor will he be willing if you multiply the gifts.