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6 My child, if you guarantee to pay a loan for someone you meet,
that is, if you agree to pay a loan for someone you do not know,
2 if in this way you have said things that you regret
because it would be very difficult for you to fulfill what you promised,
3 then, my child, do this in order to save yourself from having to pay back this loan:
humbly go to that person and beg him to cancel what you have promised because he now controls you.
4 Do not wait until tomorrow; go immediately!
do not allow yourself to 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, learn something from watching ants!
Consider what ants do so that you can be wise.
7 Absolutely no one tells ants what to do.
8 Nevertheless, they work hard all during the summer,
gathering and storing food to eat during the winter.
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 If you continue being so lazy you will become poor and needy
just as surely as if a thief has robbed you of all that you have.
12 I will describe for you what worthless, sinful people do. They constantly deceive people by what they say.
13 They make gestures, such as winking their eyes, signaling with their feet, and pointing their fingers to communicate their evil plans to their friends.
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 murdering a person who has not done anything wrong,
18 someone planning ways to act sinfully,
someone eagerly looking for ways to act wickedly,
19 someone who naturally lies when testifying,
and someone causing members of the same family to argue.
20 My child, 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 The wise things that we have taught you will help you to know what you should do as you go about each day.
They will cause you to be safe when you sleep.
When you wake up in the morning, they will be what will continue to instruct you.
23 This is so because what I have commanded you is like a lamp that shows you your way.
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 give you a good life.
24 We taught you these lessons in order to prevent you from going to wicked women,
and to prevent you from believing the seductive talk of immoral women.
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 may only cost you a cheap meal,
doing so with an adulterous married woman will cause you to die.
27 A man cannot hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes!
28 No one can walk on burning coals without blistering his feet!
29 It is similar with anyone who has sex with another man's wife.
People will certainly punish anyone who does that.
30 People do not resent someone who steals if he only steals food because he is hungry.
31 Nevertheless, if people catch thieves, those thieves must pay back seven times as much as they stole to those from whom they stole.
They may have to give everything that they own in order to repay what they stole.
32 By contrast, a man who acts adulterously with a woman is not thinking.
By doing this, he destroys himself!
33 The woman's husband will injure him,
people will despise 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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