Proverbs 6:1–6

¹⁸A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

²⁶Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

¹⁵He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.

¹⁶Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

⁹I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

³²For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

³³Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

²²By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

³Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

¹⁸If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;

¹⁹I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.

¹³Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

⁷A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

¹³The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

¹⁴And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

⁸And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

⁵¶ Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

¹²And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord.

³And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

⁴I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,

¹⁰Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

¹¹So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

³⁵Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

³⁶Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

¹⁰Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

¹⁷Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

¹⁸Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

³Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

⁷Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

¹⁷Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

¹IN the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

⁴The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

⁹He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

⁴The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

⁹How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

¹²That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

²⁶His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:

²⁵The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

¹¹Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

¹³The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

¹⁴As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

¹⁵The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.

¹⁶The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

¹⁵Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

²⁵The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

⁷But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

⁸Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

¹³The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

³⁰I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

³¹And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

³²Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.

³³Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

³⁴So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

²⁶As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

²⁶Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

¹⁹The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

²⁴A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

³The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

¹⁷Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.