Nov 26, 2019
6 My
son, if you have put up security for your
neighbor,
if you have shaken hands in pledge for a
stranger,
2 you have been trapped by what you
said,
ensnared by the words of your
mouth.
3 So do this, my son, to free
yourself,
since you have fallen into your neighbor’s
hands:
Go—to the point of
exhaustion—[a]
and give your neighbor no rest!
4 Allow no sleep to your eyes,
no slumber to your eyelids.
5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the
hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the
fowler.
6 Go to the ant,
you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in
summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
9 How long will
you lie there, you sluggard?
When will you get up from your
sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little
slumber,
a little folding of the hands to
rest—
11 and poverty will come on you like a
thief
and scarcity like an armed man.
12 A troublemaker
and a villain,
who goes about with a corrupt
mouth,
13 who winks
maliciously with his eye,
signals with his feet
and motions with his fingers,
14 who plots
evil with deceit in his heart—
he always stirs up conflict.
15 Therefore disaster will overtake him in an
instant;
he will suddenly be destroyed—without
remedy.
16 There are six
things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to
him:
17 haughty
eyes,
a
lying tongue,
hands
that shed innocent blood,
18 a
heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet
that are quick to rush into evil,
19 a
false witness who pours out lies
and
a person who stirs up conflict in the community.