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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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" /><title>Proverbs 6 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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" 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class="ln-group">My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,</span><br /><span class="indent">have given your pledge for a stranger,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">if you are snared in the words of your mouth,</span><br /><span class="indent">caught in the words of your mouth,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">then do this, my son, and save yourself,</span><br /><span class="indent">for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:</span><br /><span class="indent">go, hasten,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or humble yourself">a</a></sup></span> and plead urgently with your neighbor.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Give your eyes no sleep</span><br /><span class="indent">and your eyelids no slumber;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew lacks of the hunter">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">like a bird from the hand of the fowler.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Go to the ant, O sluggard;</span><br /><span class="indent">consider her ways, and be wise.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Without having any chief,</span><br /><span class="indent">officer, or ruler,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">she prepares her bread in summer</span><br /><span class="indent">and gathers her food in harvest.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">How long will you lie there, O sluggard?</span><br /><span class="indent">When will you arise from your sleep?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">A little sleep, a little slumber,</span><br /><span class="indent">a little folding of the hands to rest,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and poverty will come upon you like a robber,</span><br /><span class="indent">and want like an armed man.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">A worthless person, a wicked man,</span><br /><span class="indent">goes about with crooked speech,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">winks with his eyes, signals<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew scrapes">c</a></sup></span> with his feet,</span><br /><span class="indent">points with his finger,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">with perverted heart devises evil,</span><br /><span class="indent">continually sowing discord;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;</span><br /><span class="indent">in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">There are six things that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> hates,</span><br /><span class="indent">seven that are an abomination to him:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">haughty eyes, a lying tongue,</span><br /><span class="indent">and hands that shed innocent blood,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">a heart that devises wicked plans,</span><br /><span class="indent">feet that make haste to run to evil,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">a false witness who breathes out lies,</span><br /><span class="indent">and one who sows discord among brothers.</span></p> <p class="heading">Warnings Against Adultery</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My son, keep your father’s commandment,</span><br /><span class="indent">and forsake not your mother’s teaching.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Bind them on your heart always;</span><br /><span class="indent">tie them around your neck.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When you walk, they<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew it; three times in this verse">d</a></sup></span> will lead you;</span><br /><span class="indent">when you lie down, they will watch over you;</span><br /><span class="indent">and when you awake, they will talk with you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">to preserve you from the evil woman,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor">e</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew the foreign woman">f</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Do not desire her beauty in your heart,</span><br /><span class="indent">and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread">g</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">but a married woman<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew a man's wife">h</a></sup></span> hunts down a precious life.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Can a man carry fire next to his chest</span><br /><span class="indent">and his clothes not be burned?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Or can one walk on hot coals</span><br /><span class="indent">and his feet not be scorched?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;</span><br /><span class="indent">none who touches her will go unpunished.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">People do not despise a thief if he steals</span><br /><span class="indent">to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;</span><br /><span class="indent">he will give all the goods of his house.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He who commits adultery lacks sense;</span><br /><span class="indent">he who does it destroys himself.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He will get wounds and dishonor,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his disgrace will not be wiped away.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For jealousy makes a man furious,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he will not spare when he takes revenge.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He will accept no compensation;</span><br /><span class="indent">he will refuse though you multiply gifts.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>humble yourself</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Hebrew lacks <i class="catch-word">of the hunter</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Hebrew <i>scrapes</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> Hebrew <i>it</i>; three times in this verse<br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields <i><span class="catch-word">from the</span> wife of a neighbor</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">the</span> foreign woman</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) <i><span class="catch-word">for</span> a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">a</span> man's wife</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a 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