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¹ My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, If you have stricken your hands for a stranger;² You are snared with the words of your mouth, You are taken with the words of your mouth.³ Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, Seeing you have come into the hand of your neighbor: Go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor;⁴ Don't give sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;⁵ Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:⁷ Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,⁸ Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.⁹ How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?¹⁰ [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:¹¹ So shall your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.

¹² [A] worthless man, a man of iniquity, Is he that walks with a perverse mouth;¹³ That winks with his eyes, that speaks with his feet, That makes signs with his fingers;¹⁴ In whose heart is perverseness, Who devises evil continually, Who sows discord.¹⁵ Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; All of a sudden he shall be broken, and that without remedy.¹⁶ There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are disgusting to him:¹⁷ Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;¹⁸ A heart that devises wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,¹⁹ A false witness that utters lies, And he that sows discord among brothers.

²⁰ My son, keep the commandment of your father, And don't forsake the law of your mother:²¹ Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them about your neck.²² When you walk, it shall lead you; When you sleep, it shall watch over you; And when you awake, it shall talk with you.²³ For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is a light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:²⁴ To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.²⁵ Don't lust after her beauty in your heart; Neither let her take you with her eyelids.²⁶ For on account of a prostitute [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunts for the precious life.²⁷ Can a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes not be burned?²⁸ Or can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?²⁹ So he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; Whoever touches her shall not be unpunished.³⁰ Men do not despise a thief, if he steals To satisfy himself when he is hungry:³¹ But if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the substance of his house.³² He that commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He who does it destroys his own soul.³³ Wounds and dishonor he shall get; And his reproach shall not be wiped away.³⁴ For jealousy is the rage of a [noble] man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.³⁵ He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.