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