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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Proverbs 6 ERV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/erv/proverbs/6.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/proverbs/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/combine/proverbs/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</a> > Proverbs 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/5.htm" title="Proverbs 5">◄</a> Proverbs 6 <a href="../proverbs/7.htm" title="Proverbs 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">English Revised Version</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Warnings against Foolishness</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbour, if thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbour; go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbour.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So shall thy poverty come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>A worthless person, a man of iniquity; he walketh with a froward mouth;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he maketh signs with his fingers;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually; he soweth discord.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; on a sudden shall he be broken and that without remedy.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>There be six things which the LORD hateth; yea, seven which are an abomination unto him:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>A false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.</p> <p class="hdg">Warnings against Adultery</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Bind them continually upon thine heart, tie them about thy neck.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For on account of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So he that goeth in to his nieghbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he doeth it that would destroy his own soul.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Wounds and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For jealousy is the rage of a man; and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/6-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He will not regard any ransom; 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