Proverbs 6

1My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,Cross-references: Gen 43:9 · Gen 44:32 · Job 17:3 · Prov 11:15 · Prov 17:18 · Prov 20:16 · +4 more

2you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.Cross-references: Prov 12:13 · Prov 18:7

3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.Cross-references: Ex 10:3 · 2Sam 24:14 · 2Chr 12:5 · 2Chr 36:12 · Ps 31:8 · James 4:10

4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.Cross-references: Ps 132:4 · Prov 6:10 · Eccl 9:10 · Matt 24:17 · Mark 13:35

5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.Cross-references: Ps 11:1 · Ps 91:3 · Ps 124:7 · Prov 1:17

6Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;Cross-references: Job 12:7 · Prov 1:17 · Prov 6:9 · Prov 10:26 · Prov 13:4 · Prov 15:19 · +14 more

7which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,Cross-references: Job 38:39 · Job 39:26 · Job 41:4 · Prov 30:27

8provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.Cross-references: Prov 10:5 · Prov 30:25 · 1Tim 6:19

9How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?Cross-references: Ps 94:8 · Prov 1:22 · Prov 24:33 · Jer 4:14 · John 1:6 · Rom 13:11 · +2 more

10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—Cross-references: Prov 6:6 · Prov 23:33 · Prov 24:33

11so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.Cross-references: Prov 10:4 · Prov 13:4 · Prov 20:4 · Prov 24:34

12A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,Cross-references: 1Sam 17:28 · Ps 10:3 · Ps 10:7 · Ps 36:3 · Ps 52:2 · Ps 59:7 · +16 more

13who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,Cross-references: Job 15:12 · Ps 35:19 · Prov 5:6 · Prov 10:10

14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.Cross-references: Ps 36:4 · Prov 2:14 · Prov 3:29 · Prov 6:18 · Prov 16:28 · Prov 21:8 · +9 more

15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:16 · Ps 50:22 · Ps 73:18 · Prov 1:27 · Prov 29:1 · Isa 30:13 · +2 more

16There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:Cross-references: Deut 18:10 · Deut 23:18 · Deut 24:4 · Deut 25:16 · Ps 11:5 · Prov 3:32 · +19 more

17arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,Cross-references: Deut 19:10 · Deut 27:25 · 2Ki 24:4 · Ps 5:6 · Ps 10:4 · Ps 18:27 · +21 more

18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Ps 36:4 · Prov 1:16 · Prov 24:8 · Isa 59:7 · Jer 4:14 · +3 more

19a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.Cross-references: Ex 20:16 · Ex 23:1 · Deut 19:16 · 1Ki 21:10 · Ps 27:12 · Ps 35:11 · +15 more

20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.Cross-references: Deut 21:18 · Deut 27:16 · Prov 1:8 · Prov 7:1 · Prov 23:22 · Prov 30:11 · +1 more

21Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.Cross-references: Ex 13:16 · Deut 6:8 · Prov 3:3 · Prov 4:6 · Prov 4:21 · Prov 7:3 · +1 more

22When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.Cross-references: Ps 17:4 · Ps 43:3 · Ps 119:9 · Ps 119:11 · Ps 119:24 · Ps 119:54 · +5 more

23For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,Cross-references: Lev 19:17 · Ps 19:8 · Ps 119:98 · Ps 119:105 · Ps 141:5 · Prov 3:18 · +10 more

24to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.Cross-references: Prov 2:16 · Prov 5:3 · Prov 7:5 · Eccl 7:26

25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.Cross-references: 2Sam 11:2 · 2Ki 9:30 · Song 4:9 · Isa 3:16 · Matt 5:28 · James 1:14

26For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.Cross-references: Gen 39:14 · 1Sam 2:36 · Prov 5:10 · Prov 7:23 · Prov 29:3 · Prov 29:8 · +4 more

27Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?Cross-references: Job 31:9 · Hos 7:4 · James 3:5

28Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

29So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.Cross-references: Gen 12:18 · Gen 20:4 · Gen 26:10 · Lev 20:10 · 2Sam 11:3 · 2Sam 12:9 · +6 more

30Men don’t despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry,Cross-references: Job 38:39

31but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.Cross-references: Ex 22:1 · 2Sam 12:6 · Job 20:18 · Matt 18:25 · Luke 19:8

32He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.Cross-references: Gen 39:9 · Gen 41:39 · Ex 20:14 · Prov 2:18 · Prov 5:22 · Prov 7:7 · +12 more

33He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.Cross-references: Gen 49:4 · Judg 16:19 · 1Ki 15:5 · Neh 13:26 · Ps 38:1 · Ps 51:1 · +3 more

34For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.Cross-references: Num 5:14 · Num 25:11 · Judg 19:29 · Prov 27:4 · Song 8:6 · 1Cor 10:22

35He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.Cross-references: 2Ki 5:1 · Prov 4:3 · Prov 7:13 · Prov 8:25 · Isa 2:9 · Mal 2:9