¹My son, if you have gone surety for your neighbor, you have struck your palms for a stranger,

²you have been ensnared by the words of your mouth, you have been caught by the words of your mouth.

³Do this, then, my son, and deliver yourself, for you have come into the palm of your neighbor: go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbors.

⁴Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.

⁵Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand, and like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

⁶Go to the ant, sluggard; see her ways and become wise,

⁷which has no commander, officer, or ruler,

⁸she prepares her bread in the summer, she gathers her food at the harvest.

⁹How long, sluggard, will you lie down? When will you rise from your sleep?

¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down,

¹¹and your poverty will come like one who walks, and your need like a man with a shield.

¹²A person of worthlessness, a man of wickedness, goes about with crookedness of mouth,

¹³winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, pointing with his fingers,

¹⁴Perversities in his heart, devising evil, at every time he sends out strife.

¹⁵Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; in a moment he will be broken, and there is no healing.

¹⁶There are six things that Yahweh hates, and seven are the abomination of his being:

¹⁷uplifted eyes, a tongue of falsehood, and hands that pour out innocent blood,

¹⁸a heart that devises plans of wickedness, feet that hurry to run to evil,

¹⁹a witness of falsehood who breathes out lies, and one who sends out strife between brothers.

²⁰Keep, my son, the commandment of your father, and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

²¹Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them upon your neck.

²²When you walk about, she will lead you; when you lie down, she will keep watch over you; and when you wake, she will talk with you.

²³For the commandment is a lamp, and instruction is light, and the rebukes of discipline are the way of life.

²⁴To keep you from an evil woman, from the flattery of a foreign woman's tongue.

²⁵Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her eyelids take you.

²⁶For on behalf of a prostitute woman it comes up to only a round loaf of bread, and the wife of a man hunts a precious being.

²⁷Can a man snatch up fire into his bosom and his garments not be burned?

²⁸Or can a man walk upon the embers, and his feet not be scorched?

²⁹So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

³⁰People do not despise a thief when he steals to fill his being, for he is hungry.

³¹Yet when he is found, he will pay back sevenfold; he will give all the wealth of his house.

³²He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; one who ruins his being, he does it.

³³He will find a wound and dishonor, and his reproach will not be wiped out.

³⁴For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

³⁵He will not accept any ransom, and he will not consent, though you increase the bribe.