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Proverbs 6
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
1My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,
1My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,
2You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
2Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,
3Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
3Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,
4Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
4Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,
5Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
5Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
6Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:
6Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;
8She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.
8She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.
9How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
9Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?
10A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
10A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,
11Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
11And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.
12A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;
12A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking <FI>with<Fi> perverseness of mouth,
13Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;
13Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,
14His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.
14Frowardness <FI>is<Fi> in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
15For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.
15Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken--and no healing.
16Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:
16These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul.
17Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
17Eyes high--tongues false--And hands shedding innocent blood--
18A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;
18A heart devising thoughts of vanity--Feet hasting to run to evil--
19A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.
19A false witness <FI>who<Fi> doth breathe out lies--And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
20My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
20Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
21Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
21Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.
22In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
22In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked--it talketh <FI>with<Fi> thee.
23For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
23For a lamp <FI>is<Fi> the command, And the law a light, And a way of life <FI>are<Fi> reproofs of instruction,
24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
24To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
25Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
25Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.
26For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
26For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
27May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?
27Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?
28Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?
28Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?
29So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
29So <FI>is<Fi> he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
30Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:
30They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,
31But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.
31And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.
32He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
32He who committeth adultery <FI>with<Fi> a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.
33Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
33A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,