Proverbs 6:8-34

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.

²²If you follow our advice, it will be as though what we have taught you PRS will lead you, wherever you go. When you sleep, they will protect you. And when you wake up in the morning, they will teach/instruct you.

²³These commands and what we teach you will be like a lamp to light your path MET. When we rebuke you and correct/punish you, we will be showing you the road to having a good life.

²⁴Heeding PRS these commands and things that we have taught you will enable you to keep away from immoral women and from listening to the enticing words of an adulterous woman.

²⁵Even if such a woman is beautiful and has lovely eyes, do not desire to go with her. Do not let her persuade you to go with her ◄with her eyes/by the way she looks at you►.

²⁶Do not forget that you can hire a prostitute for only a loaf of bread, but if you sleep with another man's wife, ◄it may cost you/you may lose► your life.

²⁷Can you carry hot coals in your pocket and not be burned RHQ?

²⁸Can you walk on burning coals and not scorch/burn your feet?

²⁹No! And in the same way, anyone who ◄sleeps with/has sex with► another man's wife will suffer for doing that. He will certainly LIT be punished severely.

³⁰We do not despise a thief if he steals some food because he is very hungry.

³¹But if he steals something and then is caught by the police, he will have to pay back ◄seven times as much as/much more than► he stole. He may need to sell everything that is in his house to get enough money to pay it back.

³²But a man who commits adultery with some woman is very foolish, because he is destroying his own self/soul by what he is doing.

³³That woman's husband will wound him badly, and other people will despise him. His shame will never end.

³⁴Because that woman's husband will ◄be jealous/not want anyone else to sleep with her►, he will become furious, and when he gets revenge, he will not act mercifully toward the man who slept with his wife.