Young's Literal Translation

Proverbs 5

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Chapter 6

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  My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,  

 

 

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  Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,  

 

 

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3


 

  Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,  

 

 

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4


 

  Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,  

 

 

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5


 

  Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.  

 

 

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6


 

  Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;  

 

 

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  Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,  

 

 

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  She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.  

 

 

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  Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?  

 

 

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10


 

  A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,  

 

 

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11


 

  And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.  

 

 

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12


 

  A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,  

 

 

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13


 

  Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,  

 

 

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14


 

  Frowardness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.  

 

 

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15


 

  Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.  

 

 

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16


 

  These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven [are] abominations to His soul.  

 

 

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17


 

  Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --  

 

 

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18


 

  A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --  

 

 

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19


 

  A false witness [who] doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.  

 

 

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20


 

  Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.  

 

 

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21


 

  Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.  

 

 

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22


 

  In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked -- it talketh [with] thee.  

 

 

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23


 

  For a lamp [is] the command, And the law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,  

 

 

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24


 

  To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.  

 

 

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25


 

  Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.  

 

 

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26


 

  For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.  

 

 

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27


 

  Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?  

 

 

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28


 

  Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?  

 

 

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29


 

  So [is] he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.  

 

 

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30


 

  They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,  

 

 

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31


 

  And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.  

 

 

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32


 

  He who committeth adultery [with] a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.  

 

 

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33


 

  A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,  

 

 

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34


 

  For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.  

 

 

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35


 

  He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!  

 

 

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Proverbs 7

 

 

 

 

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