Here is the Proverbs Chapter to Read for Today.
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Proverbs, Chapter 6
6:1 My son, if you have become surety for your fellow man, If you have stricken your hands for a stranger;
6:2 You are snared with the words of your mouth, You are taken with the words of your mouth.
6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, Seeing you have come into the hand of your fellow man: Go, humble yourself, and importune your fellow man;
6:4 Don't give sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
6:5 Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:
6:7 Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,
6:8 Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.
6:9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
6:10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
6:11 So will your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.
6:12 [A] worthless man, a man of iniquity, Is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
6:13 Who winks with his eyes, who speaks with his feet, Who makes signs with his fingers;
6:14 In whose heart is perverseness, Who devises evil continually, Who sows discord.
6:15 Therefore will his calamity come suddenly; All of a sudden he will be broken, and that without remedy.
6:16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are disgusting to him:
6:17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
6:18 A heart that devises wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,
6:19 A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.
6:20 My son, keep the commandment of your father, And don't forsake the law of your mother:
6:21 Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them about your neck.
6:22 When you walk, it will lead you; When you sleep, it will watch over you; And when you awake, it will talk with you.
6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is a light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
6:24 To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
6:25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart; Neither let her take you with her eyelids.
6:26 For on account of a prostitute [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunts for the precious life.
6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes not be burned?
6:28 Or can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?
6:29 So he who goes in to his fellow man's wife; Whoever has any sex with her will not be unpunished.
6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steals To satisfy himself when he is hungry:
6:31 But if he is found, he will restore sevenfold; He will give all the substance of his house.
6:32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He who does it destroys his own soul.
6:33 Wounds and dishonor he will get; And his reproach will not be wiped away.
6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a [noble] man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
6:35 He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
(UPDV Translation - Copyrighted, Used By Permission. A raised + sign next to a word means plural.)
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Proverbs, Chapter 6
6:1 My son, if you have become surety for your fellow man, If you have stricken your hands for a stranger;
6:2 You are snared with the words of your mouth, You are taken with the words of your mouth.
6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, Seeing you have come into the hand of your fellow man: Go, humble yourself, and importune your fellow man;
6:4 Don't give sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
6:5 Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:
6:7 Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,
6:8 Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.
6:9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
6:10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
6:11 So will your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.
6:12 [A] worthless man, a man of iniquity, Is he who walks with a perverse mouth;
6:13 Who winks with his eyes, who speaks with his feet, Who makes signs with his fingers;
6:14 In whose heart is perverseness, Who devises evil continually, Who sows discord.
6:15 Therefore will his calamity come suddenly; All of a sudden he will be broken, and that without remedy.
6:16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are disgusting to him:
6:17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
6:18 A heart that devises wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,
6:19 A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.
6:20 My son, keep the commandment of your father, And don't forsake the law of your mother:
6:21 Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them about your neck.
6:22 When you walk, it will lead you; When you sleep, it will watch over you; And when you awake, it will talk with you.
6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is a light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
6:24 To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
6:25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart; Neither let her take you with her eyelids.
6:26 For on account of a prostitute [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunts for the precious life.
6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes not be burned?
6:28 Or can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?
6:29 So he who goes in to his fellow man's wife; Whoever has any sex with her will not be unpunished.
6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steals To satisfy himself when he is hungry:
6:31 But if he is found, he will restore sevenfold; He will give all the substance of his house.
6:32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He who does it destroys his own soul.
6:33 Wounds and dishonor he will get; And his reproach will not be wiped away.
6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a [noble] man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
6:35 He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
(UPDV Translation - Copyrighted, Used By Permission. A raised + sign next to a word means plural.)
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