LEB PRO Chapter 6

Against Pledges

• if you have bound[fn] to the stranger,
• 2 if you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, if you are caught by the sayings of your mouth,
• 3  for you have come into[fn]
• Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.
• 4  or slumber to your eyelids.
• 5  or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

Against Sloth

• 6 Consider its ways and be wise.
• 7  officer, or ruler.
• 8  in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance.
• 9  When will you rise up from your sleep?
• 10  a little folding of the hands for rest—
• 11 [fn] shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.

Against Worthlessness

• 12 goes around with[fn]
• 13  pointing in his fingers,
• 14  at all times he will send out discord.[fn]
• 15 [fn] suddenly shall his calamity come; in a moment he will be damaged and there is no healing.[fn]

What Yahweh Hates

• 16 things Yahweh hates, and seven things are abominations of his soul:[fn]
• 17 and hands that shed innocent blood,
• 18  feet that hurry to run to evil,[fn]
• 19  and sends out discord[fn] between brothers.

Commandment and Instruction as Guardians

• 20 the commandment of your father, and do not disregard the instruction of your mother.
• 21  tie them upon your neck.
• 22 [fn] she[fn] will lead you, [fn] she will watch over you,
• and when you awake, she will converse with you.
• 23 like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light, and the way of life[fn] is the reproof of discipline,
• 24 in order to preserve you from an evil woman,[fn] from the smoothness of the tongue of a[fn]
• 25  may she not capture you with her eyelashes.
• 26 the price of a woman, a prostitute,[fn] is the price of a loaf of bread, but the[fn] hunts precious life.

Warning Against Relations with a Married Woman

• 27 and his clothes not burn?
• 28  will his feet not be burned?
• 29  any who touches her shall not go unpunished.
• 30 People do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself[fn] when he is hungry.
• 31 if he is found, he will pay sevenfold, every possession of his house he shall give.
• 32 with a woman lacks[fn] he destroys himself[fn] who does it.
• 33  and his disgrace will not be wiped out.
• 34 is the fury of a husband, and he will not show restraint on the day of revenge.
• 35 [fn] and he will not be willing, though the bribe is large.