1 My son, if youi be surety for youi friend, [if] youi have stricken youi hand with a stranger,

2 youi are snared with the words of youi mouth, youi are taken with the words of youi mouth.

3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when youi are come into the hand of youi friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure youi friend.

4 Give not sleep to youi eyes, nor slumber to youi eyelids.

5 Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

6 Go to the ant, youi sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

8 Provides her meat in the summer, [and] gathers her food in the harvest.

9 How long will youi sleep, O sluggard? when will youi arise out of youi sleep?

10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

11 So shall youi poverty come as one that travels, and youi lack as an armed man.

12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse (twisted) [habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition] mouth.

13 He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;

14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

16 These six [things] does the LORD-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:

17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

18 An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

19 A false witness [that] speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

20 My son, keep youi father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of youi mother:

21 Bind them continually upon youi heart, [and] tie them about youi neck.

22 When youi go, it shall lead youi; when youi sleep, it shall keep youi; and [when] youi awake, it shall talk with youi.

23 For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:

24 To keep youi from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

25 Lust not after her beauty in youi heart; neither let her take youi with her eyelids.

26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

29 So he that goes in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.

30 [Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

31 But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

32 [But] whoso commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he [that] does it destroys his own soul.

33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach (disgrace; shame) shall not be wiped away.

34 For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though youi give many gifts.