Proverbs 6:5-21

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.