1 My son, if you have put up See Job 17:3security for your neighbor,
have See Job 17:3given your pledge for a stranger,
2 if you are [ch. 5:22]snared in the words of your mouth,
caught in the words of your mouth,
3 then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
go, hasten,6:3 Or humble yourself and [Luke 11:8;18:5]plead urgently with your neighbor.
4 ch. 20:13;Ps. 132:4Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter
See Ps. 91:3like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6 [Job 12:7] Go to ch. 30:25the ant, O ch. 10:26sluggard;
consider her ways, and ch. 23:19;27:11be wise.
7 [ch. 30:27] Without having any chief,
Ex. 5:6,15officer, or ruler,
8 she prepares her bread [ch. 10:5] in summer
and [ch. 10:5]gathers her food in harvest.
9 [Jonah 1:6] How long will you lie there, [See ver. 6above]O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?
10 ch. 24:33A little sleep, a little slumber,
Eccles. 4:5a little ch. 24:33folding of the hands to rest,
11 ch. 24:34and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.
12 ch. 16:27A worthless person, a wicked man,
goes about with ch. 4:24crooked speech,
13 ch. 10:10;Ps. 35:19winks with his eyes, signals6:13 Hebrew scrapes with his feet,
points with his finger,
14 with See ch. 2:12perverted heart [Mic. 2:1]; See ch. 3:29devises evil,
continually [ch. 16:28]sowing discord;
15 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;
Isa. 30:13,14;Jer. 19:11in a moment he will be broken ch. 29:1;2 Chr. 36:16beyond healing.
16 There are See Job 5:19six things that the Lord hates,
See Job 5:19seven that are an abomination to him:
17 [ch. 8:13;16:5;21:4]; See Ps. 101:5haughty eyes, ch. 12:22;17:7;Ps. 31:18;120:2a lying tongue,
and Deut. 19:10;Isa. 1:15;59:3,7hands that shed innocent blood,
18 Gen. 6:5a heart that devises wicked plans,
See ch. 1:16feet that make haste to run to evil,
19 See Ps. 27:12a false witness who ch. 12:17;14:5,25;19:5,9breathes out lies,
and one who [See ver. 14above]sows discord among brothers.
20 See ch. 1:8My son, keep your father’s commandment,
See ch. 1:8and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
21 See ch. 3:3Bind them on your heart always;
[Job 31:36]tie them around your neck.
22 See ch. 3:23,24When you walk, they6:22 Hebrew it; three times in this verse will lead you;
See ch. 3:23,24when you lie down, they will ch. 2:11watch over you;
and when you awake, they will talk with you.
23 For the commandment is Ps. 119:105;[Ps. 13:3] a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the [ch. 10:17]reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24 to preserve you from the evil woman,6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
from the smooth tongue of See ch. 2:16the adulteress.6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman
25 [Matt. 5:28] Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her [2 Kgs. 9:30]eyelashes;
26 for [ch. 29:3] the price of a prostitute is only ch. 28:21;1 Sam. 2:36a loaf of bread,6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
but a married woman6:26 Hebrew a man’s wifeEzek. 13:18hunts down a precious life.
27 Can a man carry Job 31:12fire next to his Ps. 79:12chest
and his clothes not be burned?
28 Or can one Isa. 43:2walk on hot coals
and his feet not be scorched?
29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
none who touches her ch. 16:5will go unpunished.
30 People do not despise a thief if he steals
to Job 38:39satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
31 but [Ex. 22:4] if he is caught, he will pay See Ps. 79:12sevenfold;
he will give all the goods of his house.
32 He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.
33 He will get wounds and dishonor,
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
34 For ch. 27:4;Song 8:6jealousy makes a man furious,
and he will not spare when [Lev. 20:10]he takes revenge.
35 He will accept no compensation;
he will refuse though you multiply gifts.
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