PROVERBS 6:5-23

⁵Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

⁶Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

⁷Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

⁸Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

⁹How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

¹⁰Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

¹¹So shall thy poverty come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.

¹²A worthless person, a man of iniquity; he walketh with a froward mouth;

¹³He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he maketh signs with his fingers;

¹⁴Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually; he soweth discord.

¹⁵Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; on a sudden shall he be broken and that without remedy.

¹⁶There be six things which the LORD hateth; yea, seven which are an abomination unto him:

¹⁷Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;

¹⁸An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief;

¹⁹A false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

²⁰My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

²¹Bind them continually upon thine heart, tie them about thy neck.

²²When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

²³For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: