Proverbs 6:6-28

⁶Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:

⁷Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,

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

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

¹⁰Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:

¹¹And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.

¹²A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

¹³He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.

¹⁴With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth discord.

¹⁵To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.

¹⁶Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:

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

¹⁸A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,

¹⁹A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.

²⁰My son, beep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

²¹Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.

²²When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep thee; and when thou awakest, talk with them.

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

²⁴That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.

²⁵Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:

²⁶For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.

²⁷Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn?

²⁸Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?