1 My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor,

2 you are trapped by the words of your mouth;

3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,

4 Give no sleep to your eyes,

5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard.

7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

8 provides her bread in the summer,

9 How long will you sleep, sluggard?

10 A little sleep, a little slumber,

11 so your poverty will come as a robber,

12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity,

13 who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet,

14 in whose heart is perverseness,

15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly.

16 There are six things which the LORD hates;

17 arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,

18 a heart that devises wicked schemes,

19 a false witness who utters lies,

20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,

21 Bind them continually on your heart.

22 When you walk, it will lead you.

23 For the commandment is a lamp,

24 to keep you from the immoral woman,

25 Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart,

26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread.

27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap,

28 Or can one walk on hot coals,

29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife.

30 Men don’t despise a thief

31 but if he is found, he shall restore seven times.

32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding.

33 He will get wounds and dishonor.

34 For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband.

35 He won’t regard any ransom,