¹My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, if you have bound ⌞yourself⌟ to the stranger, ²if you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, if you are caught by the sayings of your mouth, ³do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into ⌞the palm of your neighbor’s hand⌟: Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor. ⁴Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids. ⁵Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler. ⁶Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise. ⁷It has no chief, officer, or ruler. ⁸In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance. ⁹How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep? ¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest— ¹¹like a ⌞robber⌟ shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man. ¹²A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with ⌞deceitful speech⌟. ¹³Winking in his eye, shuffling in his foot, pointing in his fingers, ¹⁴perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord. ¹⁵Upon ⌞such a man⌟, suddenly shall his calamity come; in a moment he will be damaged and there is no healing. ¹⁶There are six things Yahweh hates, and seven things are abominations of his soul: ¹⁷haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil, ¹⁹a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers. ²⁰My child, keep the commandment of your father, and do not disregard the instruction of your mother. ²¹Bind them on your heart continually; tie them upon your neck. ²²⌞When you walk⌟, she will lead you, ⌞When you lie down⌟, she will watch over you, and when you awake, she will converse with you. ²³For like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light, and the way of life is the reproof of discipline, ²⁴in order to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of the tongue of ⌞an adulteress⌟. ²⁵Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes. ²⁶For the price of a woman, a prostitute, is the price of a loaf of bread, but the ⌞woman belonging to a man⌟ hunts precious life. ²⁷Can a man carry fire in his lap, and his clothes not burn? ²⁸If a man walks upon the hot coals, will his feet not be burned? ²⁹Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished. ³⁰People do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry. ³¹But if he is found, he will pay sevenfold, every possession of his house he shall give. ³²He who commits adultery with a woman lacks ⌞sense⌟, he destroys himself who does it. ³³A wound and dishonor he will find, and his disgrace will not be wiped out. ³⁴For jealousy is the fury of a husband, and he will not show restraint on the day of revenge. ³⁵He will not accept ⌞any compensation⌟, and he will not be willing, though the bribe is large.