Proverbs 6:1–15

My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor,

If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;

2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth,

Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself,

Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbor:

Go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor;

4Give not sleep to thine eyes,

Nor slumber to thine eyelids;

5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter,

And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

6Go to the ant, thou sluggard;

Consider her ways, and be wise:

7Which having no chief,

Overseer, or ruler,

8Provideth her bread in the summer,

And gathereth her food in the harvest.

9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?

When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,

A little folding of the hands to sleep:

11So shall thy poverty come as a robber,

And thy want as an armed man.

12A worthless person, a man of iniquity,

Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;

13That winketh with his eyes, that speaketh with his feet,

That maketh signs with his fingers;

14In whose heart is perverseness,

Who deviseth evil continually,

Who soweth discord.

15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;

On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.