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6 My son, if you guarantee to pay a loan for someone you know,
or if you agree to pay a loan for someone you do not know,
2 or if you have troubled yourself by promising something,
and you cannot fulfill what you promised,
3 then, my son, do this in order to save yourself from what you have troubled yourself with:
humbly go to that person you know and beg him to cancel what you have promised because he controls you.
4 Do not sleep,
do not even rest until you go and talk to him.
5 Save yourself immediately,
as if you were a deer fleeing from a hunter
or a bird fleeing from a trapper.
6 You lazy person, go watch ants!
Consider what ants do so that you can be wise.
7 Absolutely no one tells ants what to do.
8 Nevertheless, during the right time they store their food to eat during the winter.
Indeed, when people harvest crops the ants collect what they will eat later.
9 But you lazy person, stop sleeping!
Wake up!
10 You say to yourself, “Let me sleep just a little more!
Let me lay my hands across my chest in order to rest comfortably for a little while longer!”
11 Being so lazy will result in you suddenly becoming poor and needy,
as if a thief has attacked you.
12 Worthless people who act sinfully constantly deceive people by what they say.
13 They gesture with their bodies to deceive people.
14 They are always thinking perversely while planning how to do evil things.
They cause people to argue with each other.
15 Because of this, disastrous things will suddenly happen to those people.
Someone will destroy them instantly and they will not be able to recover.
16 Yahweh absolutely hates six, no, seven things:
17 being proud, speaking falsely,
someone who murders a person who has not done anything wrong,
18 someone who plans ways to act sinfully,
someone who is eager to act wickedly,
19 someone who easily lies when testifying,
and someone who causes members of the same family to argue.
20 My son, be mindful to obey what I, your father, have commanded you.
Indeed, obey the rules that your mother has commanded.
21 Remember what we have taught you as if it were always a part of you.
Indeed, remember these lessons as if you wore them like a necklace.
22 What we have taught you will cause you to know what you should do each day.
It will cause you to be safe when you sleep.
It will even be instructive for you when you wake up in the morning.
23 This is so because what I have commanded you is like a lamp for you.
Indeed, the rules we taught you are like a light to guide you.
When we rebuke you while instructing you, we do that so that you can do what will keep you alive.
24 We taught you these lessons in order to prevent you from going to wicked women,
and to prevent you from believing what immoral women say seductively.
25 Do not think lustfully about her beautiful body.
Do not let her seduce you by the flirtatious way she looks at you.
26 Do not do so because, although having sex with a prostitute only costs you the price of a cheap meal,
an adulterous married woman will cause you to die.
27 Fire will surely burn people who put it on their chests!
28 Burning coals will surely burn the feet of people who step on them!
29 It is similar with anyone who acts adulterously with a married woman.
People will certainly punish anyone who does that.
30 Nobody hates people who steal if they steal food in order to feed themselves when they are hungry.
31 Nevertheless, if people catch thieves, those thieves must pay back seven times as much as they stole to those whom they stole from.
They must give everything that they have in order to repay what they stole.
32 By contrast, a man who acts adulterously with a woman does not think wisely.
What he does will kill him!
33 Someone will injure and disgrace him,
and he will always be ashamed.
34 This is so because the jealous husband will become furious.
He will act mercilessly when he revenges himself on the man who acted adulterously with his wife.
35 That jealous husband will not accept any money to stop being furious,
no matter how much money you offer him.
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