Proverbs 6
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Proverbs 6
Practical Admonitions
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Prov 11.15; 17.18; 20.16; 22.26; 27.13 My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor,
if you have bound yourself to another,#6.1 Or a stranger
2you are snared by the utterance of your lips,#6.2 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb the words of your mouth
caught by the words of your mouth.
3So do this, my child, and save yourself,
for you have come into your neighbor’s power:
go, hurry,#6.3 Or humble yourself and plead with your neighbor.
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Ps 132.4
Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
5 #
Ps 91.3
save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter,#6.5 Cn: Heb from the hand
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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Prov 30.24, 25 Go to the ant, you lazybones;
consider its ways and be wise.
7Without having any chief
or officer or ruler,
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Prov 10.5
it prepares its food in summer
and gathers its sustenance in harvest.
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Prov 24.33
How long will you lie there, O lazybones?
When will you rise from your sleep?
10A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
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Prov 10.4; 13.4; 20.4 and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want, like an armed warrior.
12 #
Prov 10.32; 16.27 A scoundrel and a villain
goes around with crooked speech,
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Ps 35.19; Prov 10.10 winking the eyes, shuffling the feet,
pointing the fingers,
14 #
Mic 2.1
with perverted mind devising evil,
continually sowing discord;
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Prov 24.22; Jer 19.11 on such a one calamity will descend suddenly,
in a moment, damage beyond repair.
16There are six things that the Lord hates,
seven that are an abomination to him:
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Ps 18.27; 120.2; Isa 1.15 haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
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Gen 6.5; Prov 1.16 a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that hurry to run to evil,
19 #
Ps 27.12
a lying witness who testifies falsely,
and one who sows discord in a family.
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Prov 1.8; 7.1 My child, keep your father’s commandment,
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
21 #
Prov 3.3
Bind them upon your heart always;
tie them around your neck.
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Prov 3.23, 24 When you walk, they#6.22 Heb it will lead you;
when you lie down, they#6.22 Heb it will watch over you;
and when you awake, they#6.22 Heb it will talk with you.
23 #
Ps 19.8
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
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Prov 2.16; 5.3 to preserve you from the wife of another,#6.24 Gk: MT the evil woman
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.#6.24 Heb alien woman
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Mt 5.28
Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,
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Prov 7.23; 29.3; Ezek 13.18 for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,#6.26 Cn Compare Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb for because of a harlot to a piece of bread
but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.
27Can fire be carried in the bosom
without burning one’s clothes?
28Or can one walk on hot coals
without scorching the feet?
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Ezek 18.6; 33.26 So is he who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.
30Thieves are not despised who steal only
to satisfy their appetite when they are hungry.
31 #
Ex 22.1–4
Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold;
they will forfeit all the goods of their house.
32 #
Prov 7.7
But he who commits adultery has no sense;
he who does it destroys himself.
33He will get wounds and dishonor,
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
34 #
Prov 11.4; 27.4 For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury,
and he will show no restraint when he takes revenge.
35He will accept no compensation
and will refuse a bribe no matter how great.
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