Proverbs 6:6-26

⁶Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

⁷Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,

⁸She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.

⁹Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?

¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,

¹¹And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

¹²A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,

¹³Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,

¹⁴Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

¹⁵Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken — and no healing.

¹⁶These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul.

¹⁷Eyes high — tongues false — And hands shedding innocent blood —

¹⁸A heart devising thoughts of vanity — Feet hasting to run to evil —

¹⁹A false witness who doth breathe out lies — And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

²⁰Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

²¹Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.

²²In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked — it talketh with thee.

²³For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,

²⁴To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

²⁵Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

²⁶For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.