Proverbs 6:6-28

⁶Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

⁷Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

⁸She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

⁹How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

¹⁰A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

¹¹Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

¹²A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

¹³Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;

¹⁴His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

¹⁵For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

¹⁶Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:

¹⁷Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

¹⁸A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

¹⁹A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

²⁰My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

²¹Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

²²In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.

²³For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

²⁴They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

²⁵Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

²⁶For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

²⁷May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?

²⁸Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?