Proverbs 6

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW JERUSALEM
1 My son, if you have taken a pledge on behalf of your friend, then you have bound your hand to an outsider,	1 My child, if you have gone surety for your neighbour, if you have guaranteed the bond of a stranger,
2 then you are ensnared by the words of your own mouth, and taken captive by your own words.	2 if you have committed yourself with your lips, if through words of yours you have been entrapped,
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.	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,
4 Do not grant sleep to your eyes, nor let your eyelids slumber.	4 give your eyes no sleep, your eyelids no rest,
5 Rescue yourself like a gazelle from the hand, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.	5 break free like a gazel e from the trap, like a bird from the fowler's clutches.
6 Go to the ant, you lazy one, and consider her ways, and so learn wisdom.	6 Idler, go to the ant; ponder her ways and grow wise:
7 For though she has no ruler, nor instructor, nor leader,	7 no one gives her orders, no overseer, no master,
8 she provides meals for herself in the summer, and she gathers at the harvest what she may eat.	8 yet al through the summer she gets her food ready, and gathers her supplies at harvest time.
9 How long will you slumber, you lazy one? When will you rise up from your sleep?	9 How long do you intend to lie there, idler? When are you going to rise from your sleep?
10 You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep,	10 A little sleep, a little drowsiness, a little folding of the arms to lie back,
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.	11 and poverty comes like a vagrant and, like a beggar, dearth.
12 An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;	12 A scoundrel, a vicious man, he goes with a leer on his lips,
13 he winks with the eyes, touches with the foot, speaks with the finger.	13 winking his eye, shuffling his foot, beckoning with his finger.
14 With a depraved heart he devises evil, and at all times he sows conflict.	14 Trickery in his heart, always scheming evil, he sows dissension.
15 To this one, his perdition will arrive promptly, and he shall be crushed suddenly: he will no longer have any remedy.	15 Disaster wil overtake him sharply for this, suddenly, irretrievably, he wil be broken.
16 Six things there are that the Lord hates, and the seventh, his soul detests:	16 There are six things that Yahweh hates, seven that he abhors:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,	17 a haughty look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises the most wicked thoughts, feet running swiftly unto evil,	18 a heart that weaves wicked plots, feet that hurry to do evil,
19 a deceitful witness bringing forth lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.	19 a false witness who lies with every breath, and one who sows dissension among brothers.
20 My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother.	20 Keep your father's precept, my child, do not spurn your mother's teaching.
21 Bind them to your heart unceasingly, and encircle them around your throat.	21 Bind them ever to your heart, tie them round your neck.
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.	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.
23 For commandment is a lamp, and law is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life.	23 For the precept is a lamp, the teaching is a light; correction and discipline are the way to life,
24 So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider.	24 preserving you from the woman of bad character, from the wheedling talk of a woman who belongs toanother.
25 Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks.	25 Do not covet her beauty in your heart or let her captivate you with the play of her eyes;
26 For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.	26 a prostitute can be bought for a hunk of bread, but a married woman aims to snare a precious life.
27 Would a man be able to conceal fire in his bosom, so that his garments would not burn?	27 Can a man carry fire inside his shirt without setting his clothes alight?
28 Or could he walk over burning coals, so that his feet would not be burned?	28 Can you walk on red-hot coals without burning your feet?
29 So also, he who enters to the wife of his neighbor shall not be clean when he touches her.	29 Just so, the man who makes love to his neighbour's wife: no one who touches her wil get offunpunished.
30 Not so great is the fault when someone has stolen. For he steals so as to satisfy a hungry soul.	30 People attach but little blame to a thief who steals only to satisfy his hunger;
31 Also, if he is apprehended, he shall repay sevenfold and hand over all the substance of his house.	31 yet even he, if caught, wil have to repay sevenfold and hand over all his family resources.
32 But whoever is an adulterer, because of the emptiness of his heart, will destroy his own soul.	32 But the adulterer has no sense; he works his own destruction.
33 He gathers shame and dishonor to himself, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.	33 All he wil get is blows and contempt, and dishonour never to be blotted out.
34 For the jealousy and fury of the husband will not spare him on the day of vindication,	34 For jealousy inflames the husband who wil show no mercy when the day comes for revenge;
35 nor will he agree to the pleadings of anyone, nor will he accept, as repayment, a multitude of gifts.	35 he wil not consider any compensation; lavish what gifts you may, he wil not be placated.