Proverbs 6:2-21

²you may be trapped by what you have agreed to do, because if the one who borrowed the money is not able to pay it back, you will have to pay it. What you have said that you will do will be like a snare to you.

³So, my son, I will tell you what you should do to escape from your difficulty, so that the moneylender does not get control over your wealth: Humbly go to your friend and plead with him to cancel the agreement!

⁴Do not wait until tomorrow; go immediately! Do not rest until you go and talk with him.

⁵Save yourself, like a deer that escapes from a deer hunter or like a bird that flees from a bird hunter.

⁶You lazy individual, learn something from watching the ants. Become wise from observing what they do.

⁷They do not have a king or a governor or any other person who rules them and forces them to work,

⁸but they work hard all during the summer, gathering and storing food to eat during the winter.

⁹But, you lazy loafer, how long will you continue to sleep RHQ? Are you never going to get up from sleeping and go to work?

¹⁰You sleep a for a little time; you say, “I will take just a short nap.” You lie down and fold/lay your hands across your chest and rest;

¹¹and suddenly you will become poor. It will be as though a bandit suddenly comes and takes all that you have.

¹²I will describe for you what worthless and evil people are like. They constantly lie;

¹³by winking their eyes and moving their feet and making signs with their fingers, they signal to their friends what they are intending/planning to do.

¹⁴They plan to do evil things. They constantly cause strife/trouble.

¹⁵But disasters will hit them suddenly; they will be crushed/ruined and nothing will be able to heal them.

¹⁶There are six, maybe seven, kinds of people that Yahweh hates. They are:

¹⁷People who show by their eyes that they are very proud; people who lie MTY; people SYN who kill others SYN who have done nothing wrong;

¹⁸people who plan to do evil deeds; people SYN who run quickly to do wrong things;

¹⁹people who easily tell lies in court; and people who cause strife between family members.

²⁰My son, obey my commands, and do not ignore what your mother has taught you.

²¹Remember the things that we have said. Those things should be like a beautiful necklace around your neck.