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Proverbs 6

1 Instruction for suerties. 6 The slothful and sluggish is stirred to work. 12 He describeth the nature of the wicked. 16 The things that God hateth. 20 To observe the word of God. 24 To flee adultery.
1.My son, if thou be suertie for thy neighbour, and hast stricken hands with the stranger,
2.Thou art asnared with the words of thy mouth: thou art even taken with the words of thine own mouth.
3.Do this now, my son, and deliver thy self: seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbour, go, and humble thy self, and solicit thy friends.
4.Give no sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
5.Deliver thy self as a doe from the hand of the hunter, and as a birde from the hand of the fowler.
6.¶ Go to bthe pismire, ô sluggard: behold her ways, and be wise.
7.For she having no guide, governor, nor ruler,
9.*How long wilt thou sleep, ô sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10.Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, ca little folding of the hands to sleep.
11.Therefore thy poverty cometh as one that dtravaileth by the way, and thy necessity like ean armed man.
12.The unthrifty man fand the wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.
13.He maketh a sign with his eyes: he ^signifieth with his feet: he ginstructeth with his fingers.
14.Lewd things are in his heart: he imagineth evil at all times, and raiseth up contentions.
15.Therefore shall his destruction come spedely: he shalbe destroyed suddenly without recovery.
16.¶ These six things doeth the Lord hate: yea, his soul abhorreth seven:
17.The hauty eyes, a lying tongue, and the hands that shed innocent blood,
18.An heart that imagineth wicked enterprises, hfeet that be swift in running to mischief,
19.A false witness that speaketh lies, and him that raiseth up contentions among ^brethren.
20.¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not thy mother’s instruction.
21.Bind them alway upon thine iheart, & tie them about thy neck.
22.It shall lead thee, when thou walkest: it shall watch for thee, when thou slepest, and when thou wakest, it shall talk with thee.
23.For the kcommandment is a lantern, and instruction a light: and lcorrections for instruction are the way of life,
24.To keep thee from the wicked woman, and from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
25.Desire not her beauty in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her meyelids.
26.For because of a whorish woman a man is brought to a morsel of bread, and a woman will hunt for the precious life of a man.
27.nCan a man take fire in his bosom, & his clothes not be burnt?
28.Or can a man go upon coals, and his feet not be burnt?
29.So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife, shall not be innocent, whosoever toucheth her.
30.Men do not odespise a thief, when he stealeth, to satisfy his psoul, because he is hungry.
31.But if he be found, he shall restore seven fold, or he shall give all the substance of his house.
32.But he that committeth adultery with a woman, he ^is destitute of understanding: he that doeth it, destroyeth his own soul.
33.He shall find qa wound and dishonour, and his reproach shall never be put away.
34.For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not rspare in the day of vengeance.
35.He can not bear the sight of any ransom: neither will he consent, though thou augment the gifts.

Notes

2-a.
He forbids us not to become surety one for another, according to the rule of charity, but that we consider for whom and after what sort, so that the creditor may not be defrauded.
6-b.
If the word of God can not instruct you, yet learn at the little pismire (pejorative name from stench of formic acid proper to ants) to labour for yourself and not to burden others.
9-*.
Chap. 24.33.
10-c.
He expresses lively the nature of the sluggards, which though they sleep never so long yet have never enough, but ever seek occasions thereunto.
11-d.
That is suddenly, and when you look not for it.
11-e.
It shall come in such sort as you are not be able to resist it.
12-f.
He shows to what inconvenience the idle persons and sluggards come, by calling them unthrifty or the men of Belial and slanderous.
13-^.
Ebr., speaks.
13-g.
Thus all his gestures tend to wickedness.
18-h.
Meaning, the raging affections, which carry a man away in such sort that he can not tell what he does.
19-^.
Or, neighbours.
21-i.
Read Chap. 3.3.
23-k.
By the commandment he means the word of God: and by the instruction, the preaching and declaration of the same, which is committed to the Church.
23-l.
And reprehensions when the word is preached bring us to life.
25-m.
With her wanton looks and gesture.
27-n.
Meaning, that she will never cease, till she has brought you to beggary, and then seek your destruction.
30-o.
He approves not theft, but shows that it is not so abominable as whoredom, forasmuch as theft might be redeemed, but adultery was a perpetual infamy, and death by the Law of God.
30-p.
Meaning, for very necessity.
32-^.
Ebr., fails in heart.
33-q.
That is, death appointed by the Law.
34-r.
He shows that man by nature seeks his death, that has abused his wife, and so concludes that neither God’s Law nor the law of nature admits any ransom for the adulterer.