1My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

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Proverbs 17:18, Proverbs 22:26, Proverbs 17:18, Proverbs 22:26, Proverbs 11:15

2You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

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Proverbs 18:7, Proverbs 18:7, Proverbs 12:13, Proverbs 12:13

3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, seeing you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

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James 4:10, James 4:10, Psalms 31:8, Psalms 31:8, 2 Chronicles 36:12

4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

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Psalms 132:4, Psalms 132:4, Proverbs 6:10, Proverbs 6:11, Proverbs 6:10

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

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Psalms 91:3, Psalms 91:3, Psalms 124:7, Psalms 124:7, Proverbs 1:17

6Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

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Proverbs 20:4, Proverbs 20:4, Proverbs 18:9, Proverbs 18:9, Proverbs 6:9

7which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

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Job 38:39, Job 39:12, Job 38:39, Job 39:12, Proverbs 30:27

8provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

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Proverbs 10:5, Proverbs 10:5, Proverbs 30:25, 1 Timothy 6:19, Proverbs 30:25

9How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

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Proverbs 24:33, Proverbs 24:34, Proverbs 24:33, Proverbs 24:34, Jeremiah 4:14

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

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Proverbs 24:33, Proverbs 24:34, Proverbs 24:33, Proverbs 24:34, Proverbs 6:6

11so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

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Proverbs 13:4, Proverbs 13:4, Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 20:4, Proverbs 24:34

12A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

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Matthew 12:34, Proverbs 16:27, Proverbs 4:24, Matthew 12:34, Proverbs 16:27

13who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;

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Psalms 35:19, Psalms 35:19, Job 15:12, Proverbs 10:10, Job 15:12

14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

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Micah 2:1, Micah 2:1, Romans 16:17, Hosea 8:7, Proverbs 6:18

15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

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Jeremiah 19:11, Jeremiah 19:11, 2 Chronicles 36:16, 2 Chronicles 36:16, 1 Thessalonians 5:3

16There are six things which the Lord hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

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Psalms 11:5, Psalms 11:5, Proverbs 8:13, Proverbs 8:13, Proverbs 11:20

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

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Psalms 120:2, Psalms 120:3, Psalms 120:2, Psalms 120:3, Proverbs 12:22

18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

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Genesis 6:5, Genesis 6:5, Proverbs 1:16, Proverbs 1:16, Jeremiah 4:14

19a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

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Proverbs 6:14, Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 6:14, Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 19:9

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

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Ephesians 6:1, Ephesians 6:1, Deuteronomy 27:16, Deuteronomy 27:16, Proverbs 7:1

21Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

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Proverbs 3:3, Proverbs 3:3, Proverbs 7:3, Proverbs 7:4, Proverbs 7:3

22When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

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Proverbs 2:11, Proverbs 2:11, Psalms 119:11, Proverbs 3:23, Proverbs 3:24

23For the commandment is a lamp, and the Law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

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Psalms 119:105, Psalms 119:105, Psalms 19:8, 2 Peter 1:19, Psalms 19:8

24to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

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Proverbs 2:16, Proverbs 2:16, Proverbs 5:3, Proverbs 7:5, Proverbs 5:3

25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

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Matthew 5:28, James 1:14, James 1:15, Matthew 5:28, James 1:14

26For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

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Luke 15:30, Proverbs 29:3, Luke 15:30, Proverbs 29:3, 1 Samuel 2:36

27Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

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Job 31:9, Job 31:12, Job 31:9, Job 31:12, Hosea 7:4

28Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

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29So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

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1 Corinthians 7:1, 1 Corinthians 7:1, Malachi 3:5, 2 Samuel 16:21, 2 Samuel 11:3

30Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

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Job 38:39, Job 38:39

31but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

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Luke 19:8, Job 20:18, Luke 19:8, Job 20:18, Exodus 22:1

32He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

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Proverbs 7:7, Proverbs 7:7, Hebrews 13:4, Hebrews 13:4, Proverbs 7:22

33He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.

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Proverbs 5:9, Proverbs 5:11, Proverbs 5:9, Proverbs 5:11, Psalms 38:1

34For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in the day of vengeance.

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Song of Solomon 8:6, Proverbs 27:4, Song of Solomon 8:6, Proverbs 27:4, Numbers 5:14

35He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

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Isaiah 2:9, Proverbs 4:3, Proverbs 7:13, Proverbs 8:25, 2 Kings 5:1