¹ My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
       if you have struck hands in pledge for another,

    ² if you have been trapped by what you said,
       ensnared by the words of your mouth,

    ³ then do this, my son, to free yourself,
       since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands:
       Go and humble yourself;
       press your plea with your neighbor!

    ⁴ Allow no sleep to your eyes,
       no slumber to your eyelids.

    ⁵ Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
       like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

    ⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard;
       consider its ways and be wise!

    ⁷ It has no commander,
       no overseer or ruler,

    ⁸ yet it stores its provisions in summer
       and gathers its food at harvest.

    ⁹ How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
       When will you get up from your sleep?

    ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
       a little folding of the hands to rest-

    ¹¹ and poverty will come on you like a bandit
       and scarcity like an armed man. ^[a]

    ¹² A scoundrel and villain,
       who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

    ¹³ who winks with his eye,
       signals with his feet
       and motions with his fingers,

    ¹⁴ who plots evil with deceit in his heart—
       he always stirs up dissension.

    ¹⁵ Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant;
       he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.

    ¹⁶ There are six things the LORD hates,
       seven that are detestable to him:

    ¹⁷ haughty eyes,
       a lying tongue,
       hands that shed innocent blood,

    ¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked schemes,
       feet that are quick to rush into evil,

    ¹⁹ a false witness who pours out lies
       and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

    ²⁰ My son, keep your father's commands
       and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

    ²¹ Bind them upon your heart forever;
       fasten them around your neck.

    ²² When you walk, they will guide you;
       when you sleep, they will watch over you;
       when you awake, they will speak to you.

    ²³ For these commands are a lamp,
       this teaching is a light,
       and the corrections of discipline
       are the way to life,

    ²⁴ keeping you from the immoral woman,
       from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.

    ²⁵ Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
       or let her captivate you with her eyes,

    ²⁶ for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread,
       and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

    ²⁷ Can a man scoop fire into his lap
       without his clothes being burned?

    ²⁸ Can a man walk on hot coals
       without his feet being scorched?

    ²⁹ So is he who sleeps with another man's wife;
       no one who touches her will go unpunished.

    ³⁰ Men do not despise a thief if he steals
       to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

    ³¹ Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,
       though it costs him all the wealth of his house.

    ³² But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment;
       whoever does so destroys himself.

    ³³ Blows and disgrace are his lot,
       and his shame will never be wiped away;

    ³⁴ for jealousy arouses a husband's fury,
       and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

    ³⁵ He will not accept any compensation;
       he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.

Footnotes:

1  verse  11   Or like a vagrant / and scarcity like a beggar