Proverbs / Warnings: Surety, Laziness, and Wickedness

Warnings: Surety, Laziness, and Wickedness

Proverbs 6:1-19

Chapter 6

¹ My son, if you have become surety for your companion, if you have struck your palms for a stranger: ² You are snared by the words of your mouth; you are caught by the words of your mouth. ³ Do this, my son, and deliver yourself, for you have come into the hand of your companion. Go, humble yourself, and urge your companion. ⁴ Do not give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. ⁵ Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand and like a bird from the hand of a snare. ⁶ Go to the ant, O lazybones; see her ways and be wise. ⁷ which has no officer, overseer, or ruler ⁸ Prepare her bread in summer and gather her food in harvest. ⁹ How long, sluggard? Will you lie down? When will you rise from your sleep? ¹⁰ A little—a little sojourning, a little—slumbers, a little—embracing of hands to lie down. ¹¹ And it comes like a highwayman, your poverty and your need like a man shield. ¹² A man of Belial, a man of iniquity, a man who walks with crookedness in his mouth. ¹³ He winks with his eye, shuffles with his foot, and points with his fingers. ¹⁴ Twists are in his heart; he devises evil every time; he sends out contentions. ¹⁵ Therefore his disaster will come suddenly; in a moment he will be shattered, with no healing. ¹⁶ Six—these the LORD hates, and seven are abominations of his soul. ¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. ¹⁸ a heart of an artisan scheming, hands feet hastening to run to moral evil ¹⁹ who blows out lies—a witness to a lie—and sends strife between brothers.