Proverbs 6:9-24

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

¹⁰“A little more sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands in lying down;”

¹¹But then will thy poverty come like a rover, and thy want as a man armed with a shield.

¹²A Godless person is a man of injustice, who walketh with a distorted mouth.

¹³He blinketh with his eyes, he scrapeth with his feet, he pointeth with his fingers;

¹⁴Perverseness is in his heart, he contriveth evil at all times; he scattereth abroad discord.

¹⁵Therefore shall suddenly come his calamity: unawares shalt he be broken without a remedy.

¹⁶Six things there are which the Lord hateth; and seven are an abomination unto his spirit:

¹⁷Haughty eyes, a tongue of falsehood, and hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁸A heart that contriveth plans of injustice, feet that hasten to run after evil,

¹⁹A false witness that eagerly uttereth lies, and him that scattereth abroad discord among brethren.

²⁰Keep, O my son, the commandment of thy father, and reject not the teaching of thy mother:

²¹Bind them upon thy heart continually, tie them about thy throat.

²²When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou liest down, it shall watch over thee; and when thou art awake, it shall converse with thee.

²³For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light; and the way of life are the admonitions of correction:

²⁴To guard thee against a bad woman, from the flattery of an alien tongue.