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¹ My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you struck your hands with an alien,² you are snared with the words of your mouth; you are captured with the words of your own mouth.³ My son, do this then, and deliver yourself when you come into the hand of your friend: go lower yourself and be bold to your friend.⁴ Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.⁵ Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hand of a hunter , and as a bird from the fowler's hand.

⁶ Go to the ant, lazy man; consider her ways and be wise;⁷ who, having no guide, overseer or ruler,⁸ provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.⁹ How long will you lie down, O lazy man? When will you arise out of your sleep?¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down;¹¹ so shall your poverty come as one walking, and your need like an armed man.

¹² A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,¹³ winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, teaching with his fingers.¹⁴ Perversity is in his heart; he is plotting evil at every time, he sends out strife.¹⁵ On account of this, calamity shall come suddenly; he is broken quickly and there is no healing.¹⁶ These six things Jehovah hates; yea, seven are hateful to his soul;¹⁷ a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,¹⁸ a heart that plots evil plans, feet hurrying to run to mischief,¹⁹ a false witness who breathes lies, and he who causes strife among brothers.

²⁰ My son, keep your father's commands, and do not forsake the law of your mother.²¹ Bind them to your heart forever; tie them around your neck.²² When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall watch over you; and when you awaken, it will meditate with you.²³ For the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light; and reproofs of instruction are a way of life,²⁴ to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of the strange woman.²⁵ Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, and do not let her take you with her eyelids.²⁶ For on account of a woman, a harlot, a man comes to the last loaf of bread, and another man's wife hunts for the precious soul.²⁷ Can a man take fire into his bosom and his clothes not be burned?²⁸ Or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be burned?²⁹ So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; everyone touching her shall not be innocent.³⁰ They do not despise a thief, if he steals to fill his appetite when he is hungry.³¹ But if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the goods of his house.³² He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; he who does it is a destroyer of his own soul.³³ He shall find a wound and dishonor, and his shame shall not be wiped away.³⁴ For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.³⁵ He will not lift up the face of every ransom, nor will he consent if you multiply the bribes.