Proverbs 6

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 My child, if you have gone surety for your neighbour, if you have guaranteed the bond of a stranger,	1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger.
2 if you have committed yourself with your lips, if through words of yours you have been entrapped,	2 Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.
3 do this, my child, to extricate yourself -- since you have put yourself in the power of your neighbour: go,humble yourself, plead with your neighbour,	3 Do therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:
4 give your eyes no sleep, your eyelids no rest,	4 Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.
5 break free like a gazel e from the trap, like a bird from the fowler's clutches.	5 Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6 Idler, go to the ant; ponder her ways and grow wise:	6 Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:
7 no one gives her orders, no overseer, no master,	7 Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,
8 yet al through the summer she gets her food ready, and gathers her supplies at harvest time.	8 Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
9 How long do you intend to lie there, idler? When are you going to rise from your sleep?	9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou rise out of thy sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little drowsiness, a little folding of the arms to lie back,	10 Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:
11 and poverty comes like a vagrant and, like a beggar, dearth.	11 And 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.
12 A scoundrel, a vicious man, he goes with a leer on his lips,	12 A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,
13 winking his eye, shuffling his foot, beckoning with his finger.	13 He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.
14 Trickery in his heart, always scheming evil, he sows dissension.	14 With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth discord.
15 Disaster wil overtake him sharply for this, suddenly, irretrievably, he wil be broken.	15 To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.
16 There are six things that Yahweh hates, seven that he abhors:	16 Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:
17 a haughty look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,	17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that weaves wicked plots, feet that hurry to do evil,	18 A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,
19 a false witness who lies with every breath, and one who sows dissension among brothers.	19 A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.
20 Keep your father's precept, my child, do not spurn your mother's teaching.	20 My son, beep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
21 Bind them ever to your heart, tie them round your neck.	21 Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.
22 While you are active, they will guide you, when you fal asleep, they wil watch over you, when youwake up, they will converse with you.	22 When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep thee; and when thou awakest, talk with them.
23 For the precept is a lamp, the teaching is a light; correction and discipline are the way to life,	23 Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
24 preserving you from the woman of bad character, from the wheedling talk of a woman who belongs toanother.	24 That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.
25 Do not covet her beauty in your heart or let her captivate you with the play of her eyes;	25 Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:
26 a prostitute can be bought for a hunk of bread, but a married woman aims to snare a precious life.	26 For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.
27 Can a man carry fire inside his shirt without setting his clothes alight?	27 Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn?
28 Can you walk on red-hot coals without burning your feet?	28 Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?
29 Just so, the man who makes love to his neighbour's wife: no one who touches her wil get offunpunished.	29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.
30 People attach but little blame to a thief who steals only to satisfy his hunger;	30 The fault is not so great when a man hath stolen: for he stealeth to fill his hungry soul:
31 yet even he, if caught, wil have to repay sevenfold and hand over all his family resources.	31 And if he be taken he shall restore sevenfold, and shall give up all the substance of his house.
32 But the adulterer has no sense; he works his own destruction.	32 But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul:
33 All he wil get is blows and contempt, and dishonour never to be blotted out.	33 He gathereth to himself shame and dishonour, and his reproach shall not be blotted out:
34 For jealousy inflames the husband who wil show no mercy when the day comes for revenge;	34 Because the jealousy and rage of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge,
35 he wil not consider any compensation; lavish what gifts you may, he wil not be placated.	35 Nor will he yield to any man's prayers, nor will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts.