^{1 Ref} My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,

^{2 Ref} Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

^{3 Ref} Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,

^{4 Ref} Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

^{5 Ref} Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

^{6 Ref} Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

^{7 Ref} Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,

^{8 Ref} She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.

^{9 Ref} Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?

^{10 Ref} A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,

^{11 Ref} And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

^{12 Ref} A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking `with' perverseness of mouth,

^{13 Ref} Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,

^{14 Ref} Frowardness `is' in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

^{15 Ref} Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.

^{16 Ref} These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven `are' abominations to His soul.

^{17 Ref} Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

^{18 Ref} A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --

^{19 Ref} A false witness `who' doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

^{20 Ref} Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

^{21 Ref} Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.

^{22 Ref} In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked -- it talketh `with' thee.

^{23 Ref} For a lamp `is' the command, And the law a light, And a way of life `are' reproofs of instruction,

^{24 Ref} To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

^{25 Ref} Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

^{26 Ref} For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

^{27 Ref} Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?

²⁸ Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?

^{29 Ref} So `is' he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.

^{30 Ref} They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,

^{31 Ref} And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.

^{32 Ref} He who committeth adultery `with' a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

^{33 Ref} A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,

^{34 Ref} For jealousy `is' the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.

^{35 Ref} He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!