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¹ MY son, if you have become surety for your friend, if you have obligated yourself to a stranger,² Then you are snared with the words of your mouth, you are caught with the words of your lips.³ Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself because, for the sake of your friend, you have fallen into the hands of your enemies; go, therefore, and stir up your friend for whom you have become surety to meet his obligation.⁴ You shall not give sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eyelids.⁵ Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the snare, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁶ Be like the ant, consider her ways, and be wise;⁷ Though having no harvest and no ruler over her, neither any one to guide her,⁸ She provides her bread in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.⁹ How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?¹⁰ Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands on the chest;¹¹ And then poverty shall come upon you, and distress shall overtake you; become a successful man.

¹² A fool, a wicked man, is unscrupulous.¹³ He winks with his eyes, he signals with his feet, he makes signs with his fingers;¹⁴ He is perverse in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.¹⁵ Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; suddenly will he be broken without remedy.¹⁶ There are six things which the LORD hates; yea, the seventh is an abomination to him:¹⁷ Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood.¹⁸ A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,¹⁹ A false witness who speaks lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

²⁰ My son, keep your fathers commandment and do not forsake the law of your mother;²¹ Impress them firmly on your heart and tie them about your neck.²² When you walk, let them follow you; let them be with you, keep them that they may keep you; and when you awake, meditate on them.²³ For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is a light, and the 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.²⁵ Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her snare you with her eyes, nor let her captivate you with her eyelids.²⁶ For the appearance of a harlot is tempting like a loaf of bread; and the adulteress hunts for the precious life.²⁷ Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?²⁸ Can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?²⁹ So is he who goes in to his neighbors wife and touches her; he shall not be innocent.³⁰ No one wonders at a thief when he is caught stealing, for he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;³¹ But if he is caught, he shall pay sevenfold; he shall give all the goods of his house.³² But he who commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding, and he destroys his own soul.³³ And he who does it brings dishonor upon himself; and his reproach shall not be wiped out.³⁴ For jealousy provokes a mans rage; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.³⁵ He will not regard any ransom; nor will he listen, though you increase the bribe.