[6:1] My child, have you promised to be responsible for someone else's debts?
[6:2] Have you been caught by your own words, trapped by your own promises?
[6:3] Well then, my child, you are in that person's power, but this is how to get out of it: hurry to him, and beg him to release you.
[6:4] Don't let yourself go to sleep or even stop to rest.
[6:5] Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter.
[6:6] Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.
[6:7] They have no leader, chief, or ruler,
[6:8] but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter.
[6:9] How long is the lazy man going to lie around? When is he ever going to get up?
[6:10] “I'll just take a short nap,” he says; “I'll fold my hands and rest a while.”
[6:11] But while he sleeps, poverty will attack him like an armed robber.
[6:12] Worthless, wicked people go around telling lies.
[6:13] They wink and make gestures to deceive you,
[6:14] all the while planning evil in their perverted minds, stirring up trouble everywhere.
[6:15] Because of this, disaster will strike them without warning, and they will be fatally wounded. – A proud look, – a lying tongue, – hands that kill innocent people, – a mind that thinks up wicked plans, – feet that hurry off to do evil, – a witness who tells one lie after another, – and someone who stirs up trouble among friends.