05/12/2024
Proverbs 6:1-19
Practical Warnings
[1] My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,
[2] if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,
[3] then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.
[4] Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
[5] save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
[6] Go to the ant, O sluggard consider her ways, and be wise.
[7] Without having any chief officer, or ruler,
[8] she prepares her bread in summer
and gathers her food in harvest.
[9] How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?
[10] A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
[11] and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
[12] A worthless person, a wicked man,
goes about with crooked speech,
[13] winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger,
[14] with perverted heart devises evil,
continually sowing discord;
[15] therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
[16] There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
[17] haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
[18] a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
[19] a false witness who breathes out lies,
and one who sows discord among brothers.
