1My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, (أي 17:3)2if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, (أم 5:22)3then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten,[1] and plead urgently with your neighbor. (لو 11:8; لو 18:5)4Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; (مز 132:4; أم 20:13)5save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,[2] like a bird from the hand of the fowler. (مز 91:3)6Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. (أي 12:7; أم 10:26; أم 23:19; أم 27:11; أم 30:25)7Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, (خر 5:6; خر 5:15; أم 30:27)8she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. (أم 10:5)9How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? (أم 6:6; يون 1:6)10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, (أم 24:33; جا 4:5)11and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man. (أم 24:34)12A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, (أم 4:24; أم 16:27)13winks with his eyes, signals[3] with his feet, points with his finger, (مز 35:19; أم 10:10)14with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; (أم 2:12; أم 3:29; أم 16:28; مي 2:1)15therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. (2أخ 36:16; أم 29:1; إش 30:13; إر 19:11)16There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: (أي 5:19)17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, (تث 19:10; مز 31:18; مز 101:5; مز 120:2; أم 8:13; أم 12:22; أم 16:5; أم 17:7; أم 21:4; إش 1:15; إش 59:3; إش 59:7)18a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, (تك 6:5; أم 1:16)19a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. (مز 27:12; أم 6:14; أم 12:17; أم 14:5; أم 14:25; أم 19:5; أم 19:9)
Warnings Against Adultery
20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. (أم 1:8)21Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck. (أي 31:36; أم 3:3)22When you walk, they[4] will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you. (أم 2:11; أم 3:23)23For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, (مز 13:3; مز 119:105; أم 10:17)24to preserve you from the evil woman,[5] from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.[6] (أم 2:16)25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; (2مل 9:30; مت 5:28)26for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,[7] but a married woman[8] hunts down a precious life. (1صم 2:36; أم 28:21; أم 29:3; حز 13:18)27Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned? (أي 31:12; مز 79:12)28Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? (إش 43:2)29So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished. (أم 16:5)30People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry, (أي 38:39)31but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house. (خر 22:4; مز 79:12)32He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.33He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.34For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge. (لا 20:10; أم 27:4; نش 8:6)35He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.