Proverbs 6:1-19
Warnings against Foolishness

1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

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2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

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3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

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4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

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5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

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7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

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8 Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest.

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9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

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10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

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11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

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12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

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13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;

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14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

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15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

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16 These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:

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17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

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18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

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19 A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

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