Proverbs 6:10-33

¹⁰“A little more sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands in lying down;”

¹¹But then will thy poverty come like a rover, and thy want as a man armed with a shield.

¹²A Godless person is a man of injustice, who walketh with a distorted mouth.

¹³He blinketh with his eyes, he scrapeth with his feet, he pointeth with his fingers;

¹⁴Perverseness is in his heart, he contriveth evil at all times; he scattereth abroad discord.

¹⁵Therefore shall suddenly come his calamity: unawares shalt he be broken without a remedy.

¹⁶Six things there are which the Lord hateth; and seven are an abomination unto his spirit:

¹⁷Haughty eyes, a tongue of falsehood, and hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁸A heart that contriveth plans of injustice, feet that hasten to run after evil,

¹⁹A false witness that eagerly uttereth lies, and him that scattereth abroad discord among brethren.

²⁰Keep, O my son, the commandment of thy father, and reject not the teaching of thy mother:

²¹Bind them upon thy heart continually, tie them about thy throat.

²²When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou liest down, it shall watch over thee; and when thou art awake, it shall converse with thee.

²³For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light; and the way of life are the admonitions of correction:

²⁴To guard thee against a bad woman, from the flattery of an alien tongue.

²⁵Covet not her beauty in thy heart, and let her not conquer thee with her eyelids.

²⁶For by means of a harlot one is brought down to the last loaf of bread: and an adulterous woman will even hunt for the precious life,

²⁷Can a man gather up fire in his lap, and shall his clothes not be burnt?

²⁸Can a man walk along upon hot coals, and shall his feet not be burnt?

²⁹So it is with him that goeth in to his neighbor's wife: no one that toucheth her shall remain unpunished.

³⁰Men do not despise the thief, if he steal, to gratify his craving when he is hungry:

³¹And if he be found, he must pay sevenfold; all the wealth his house must he give.

³²But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh sense: he that is the destroyer of his soul, will alone do this.

³³Plague and disgrace will he meet with; and his reproach will not be blotted out.