1My son, if you have pledged yourself to your neighbor, if you have struck your palm for a stranger,2you are snared by the words of your lips and captured by the words of your lips.3Do this then, my son, and rescue yourself, because you have come into the palm of your neighbor. Go, stamp firmly, and be assertive toward your neighbor.4Do not give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.5Rescue yourself like a gazelle from the hunter's hand and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.6Go to the ant, O sluggard; observe her ways and become wise.7She has no chief, no official, and no ruler,8yet she prepares her food in summer and gathers her food in harvest.9How long will you lie down, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down,11and your poverty will come like a traveler, and your need like a man with a shield.12A worthless man, a man of evil, walks with crooked lips,13winking with his eye, rubbing with his foot, and signaling with his fingers,14with perversity in his heart, plotting evil at every moment; he stirs up strife.15Therefore his calamity comes suddenly; in an instant it breaks, and there is no healing.16There are six things that the LORD hates, and seven that are abominations to his soul:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,18a heart that plots evil schemes, feet swift to run toward harm,19a false witness who breathes out lies and one who sows strife among brothers.