Proverbs 6

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 My child, if you have gone surety for your neighbour, if you have guaranteed the bond of a stranger,	1 My son, if you have taken a pledge on behalf of your friend, then you have bound your hand to an outsider,
2 if you have committed yourself with your lips, if through words of yours you have been entrapped,	2 then you are ensnared by the words of your own mouth, and taken captive by your 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 Therefore, my son, do what I say, and free yourself, for you have fallen into the hand of your neighbor. Run, hurry, awaken your friend.
4 give your eyes no sleep, your eyelids no rest,	4 Do not grant sleep to your eyes, nor let your eyelids slumber.
5 break free like a gazel e from the trap, like a bird from the fowler's clutches.	5 Rescue yourself like a gazelle from the hand, and like 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, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom.
7 no one gives her orders, no overseer, no master,	7 For though she has no ruler, nor instructor, nor leader,
8 yet al through the summer she gets her food ready, and gathers her supplies at harvest time.	8 she provides meals for herself in the summer, and she gathers at the harvest what she may eat.
9 How long do you intend to lie there, idler? When are you going to rise from your sleep?	9 How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little drowsiness, a little folding of the arms to lie back,	10 You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep,
11 and poverty comes like a vagrant and, like a beggar, dearth.	11 and then destitution will meet with you, like a traveler, and poverty, like an armed man. Yet truly, if you would be diligent, then your harvest will arrive like a fountain, and destitution will flee far from you.
12 A scoundrel, a vicious man, he goes with a leer on his lips,	12 An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;
13 winking his eye, shuffling his foot, beckoning with his finger.	13 he winks with the eyes, touches with the foot, speaks with the finger.
14 Trickery in his heart, always scheming evil, he sows dissension.	14 With a depraved heart he devises evil, and at all times he sows conflict.
15 Disaster wil overtake him sharply for this, suddenly, irretrievably, he wil be broken.	15 To this one, his perdition will arrive promptly, and he shall be crushed suddenly: he will no longer have any remedy.
16 There are six things that Yahweh hates, seven that he abhors:	16 Six things there are that the Lord hates, and the seventh, his soul detests:
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 devises the most wicked thoughts, feet running swiftly unto evil,
19 a false witness who lies with every breath, and one who sows dissension among brothers.	19 a deceitful witness bringing forth lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
20 Keep your father's precept, my child, do not spurn your mother's teaching.	20 My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother.
21 Bind them ever to your heart, tie them round your neck.	21 Bind them to your heart unceasingly, and encircle them around your throat.
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 you walk, let them keep step with you. When you sleep, let them guard you. And when you keep watch, speak with them.
23 For the precept is a lamp, the teaching is a light; correction and discipline are the way to life,	23 For commandment is a lamp, and law is a light, and the reproofs of discipline 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 So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider.
25 Do not covet her beauty in your heart or let her captivate you with the play of her eyes;	25 Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by 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 prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.
27 Can a man carry fire inside his shirt without setting his clothes alight?	27 Would a man be able to conceal fire in his bosom, so that his garments would not burn?
28 Can you walk on red-hot coals without burning your feet?	28 Or could he walk over burning coals, so that his feet would not be burned?
29 Just so, the man who makes love to his neighbour's wife: no one who touches her wil get offunpunished.	29 So also, he who enters to the wife of his neighbor shall not be clean when he touches her.
30 People attach but little blame to a thief who steals only to satisfy his hunger;	30 Not so great is the fault when someone has stolen. For he steals so as to satisfy a hungry soul.
31 yet even he, if caught, wil have to repay sevenfold and hand over all his family resources.	31 Also, if he is apprehended, he shall repay sevenfold and hand over all the substance of his house.
32 But the adulterer has no sense; he works his own destruction.	32 But whoever is an adulterer, because of the emptiness of his heart, will destroy his own soul.
33 All he wil get is blows and contempt, and dishonour never to be blotted out.	33 He gathers shame and dishonor to himself, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
34 For jealousy inflames the husband who wil show no mercy when the day comes for revenge;	34 For the jealousy and fury of the husband will not spare him on the day of vindication,
35 he wil not consider any compensation; lavish what gifts you may, he wil not be placated.	35 nor will he agree to the pleadings of anyone, nor will he accept, as repayment, a multitude of gifts.