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\c 6
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\v 1 My son, if you provide a guarantee for a neighbor who takes out a loan,
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\q2 or if you give the promise that you will pay for a loan of a person you do not know,
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\v 2 you laid a trap for yourself by making the promise,
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\q2 and you have been caught by agreeing to a contract for someone you did not know.
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\v 3 Do this, my son, and deliver yourself from this difficulty:
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\q1 humbly go to your neighbor and beg him to cancel the agreement that you made.
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\v 4 Do not sleep,
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\q2 and do not rest until you go and talk with him.
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\v 5 Save yourself,
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\q2 like a deer that escapes from the hunter;
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\q2 or like a bird that flies away from the hand of one who hunts for birds.
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\v 6 You lazy person, learn something from watching the ants.
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\q2 Become wise and watch what they do.
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\v 7 The ant has no commander, officer, or ruler telling him what to do,
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\v 8 but during the summer it works hard,
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\q2 gathering and storing food to eat during the winter.
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\v 9 But you lazy person, how long will you continue to sleep ?
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\q2 When will you rise and go to work?
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\v 10 You sleep a for a little time, and then you say, "A little more sleep, a little more resting in bed,
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\q2 a little more folding of the hands to take a nap."
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\v 11 Suddenly poverty will take over your life like a thief who steals everything from you.
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\v 12 A worthless person — a person who does bad to others—he lives by the lies he speaks to others.
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\v 13 They tell tales by winking their eyes and they give signals by moving their feet, and they make plans by pointing with their fingers.
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\v 14 The one who does bad things lays out plans within himself;
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\q2 he stirs up constant conflict wherever he goes.
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\v 15 His own disaster will overtake him in a second;
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\q2 he will be crushed to the point that he cannot be healed.
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\v 16 There are six, even seven, things that Yahweh hates.
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\v 17 Yahweh hates the eyes of the proud, the tongue that tells lies,
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\q the hands that shed the blood of the innocent,
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\v 18 a heart that plots and makes plans to do evil things to others,
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\v 19 the witness who breathes out lies when he gives testimony,
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\q3 and the one who causes strife between members of the same family.
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\v 20 My son, obey the command of your father,
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\q2 and do not walk away from what your mother taught you.
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\v 21 Keep these lessons and tie them close inside as a part of yourself;
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\q2 tie them around your neck, to remind you how important they are to you.
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\v 22 When you walk, those lessons will guide you.
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\q2 When you sleep, they will watch over you and protect you.
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\q When you wake up in the morning, they will teach you.
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\v 23 These commands are like a lamp for you, and what we teach you is like a light to guide you.
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\q1 When people correct you, this is to continually teach you the right way to live.
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\v 24 These lessons keep you from the immoral woman,
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\q2 they tell you about her enticing words and warn you to be on guard.
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\v 25 Do not throw your desires after such a woman, nor should you desire her beauty;
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\q do not let her capture you by the way she looks at you.
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\v 26 Sleeping with a prostitute may cost you only the price of a loaf of bread,
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\q2 but if you sleep with another man's wife, it may cost you your life.
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\v 27 Can you carry hot coals in your pockets and not be burned?
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\v 28 Can you walk on burning coals and not scorch your feet?
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\v 29 So is anyone who sleeps with another man's wife—he will suffer for doing that.
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\q2 It is certain he will be severely punished.
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\v 30 We do not despise a thief if he steals some food because he is very hungry.
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\v 31 But if he steals something and then is caught by others,
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\q1 he will have to pay back seven times as much as he stole,
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\q1 even if he must sell everything that is in his house to get enough money to repay what he stole.
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\v 32 But a man who commits adultery is has no good judgment
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\q2 because he is destroying his own self.
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\v 33 Wounds and shame will come to him;
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\q1 he will never forget how others disgraced him for his deed.
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\v 34 Because that woman's husband will be jealous, he will become furious,
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\q2 and when he gets revenge, he will not act mercifully toward that man.
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\v 35 And he will not accept any bribe to stop him.
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