Proverbs 6
1 My son, if someone has borrowed money from a friend or a stranger, and if you have promised that you will pay the money back if that person is unable to pay back the money he borrowed,
O son my if you have stood surety for fellow-citizen your you have struck for the stranger palms your.
2 you may be trapped by what you have agreed to do, [because if the one who borrowed the money is not able to pay it back, you will have to pay it]. What you have said that you will do will be like a snare to you.
You have been ensnared by [the] words of mouth your you have been caught by [the] words of mouth your.
3 So, my son, I will tell you what you should do to escape from your difficulty, so that the moneylender does not get control over your [wealth: ] Humbly go to your friend and plead with him [to cancel the agreement]!
Do this then - O son my and deliver yourself for you have come in [the] palm of neighbor your go humble yourself and importune neighbor your.
4 Do not wait until tomorrow; [go immediately]! Do not rest until you [go and talk with him].
May not you give sleep to eyes your and slumber to eyelids your.
5 Save yourself, like a deer that escapes from a deer hunter [or] like a bird that flees from a bird hunter.
Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hand and like a bird from [the] hand of a fowler.
6 You lazy individual, learn something from [watching] the ants. Become wise from observing what they do.
Go to an ant O sluggard consider ways its and become wise.
7 They do not have a king or a governor or any [other] person who rules them [and forces them to work],
Which not [belongs] to it [is] commander of icer and ruler.
8 [but] they work hard [all] during the summer, gathering and storing food to eat during the winter.
It prepares in the summer food its it gathers at the harvest food its.
9 [But], you lazy loafer, how long will you [continue to] sleep [RHQ]? Are you never going to get up from sleeping [and go to work]?
Until when? O sluggard - will you lie down when? will you rise from sleep your.
10 You sleep a for a little time; [you say, “I will take] just a short nap.” You lie down and fold/lay your hands [across your chest] and rest;
A little of sleep a little of slumber a little of - folding of hands to rest.
11 and suddenly you will become poor. It will be as though a bandit suddenly comes and takes all that you have.
And it will come like a traveler poverty your and lack your like a man of shield.
12 [I will describe for you what] worthless and evil people [are like]. They constantly lie;
A person of worthlessness a person of wickedness [is] walking crookedness of mouth.
13 by winking their eyes and moving their feet and making signs with their fingers, they signal [to their friends what they are intending/planning to do].
[he is] winking (With eyes his *QK) [he is] scraping (with feet his *QK) [he is] pointing with fingers his.
14 They plan to do evil things. They constantly cause strife/trouble.
Perverse things - [are] in heart his [he is] devising evil at every time (contentions *QK) he sends out.
15 But disasters will hit them suddenly; they will be crushed/ruined and nothing will be able to heal them.
There-fore suddenly it will come disaster his an instant he will be broken and there not [will be] healing.
16 There are six, [maybe] seven, kinds of people that Yahweh hates. [They are]:
Six [things] those he hates Yahweh and [are] seven ([the] disgusting thing of *QK) self his.
17 People who show by their eyes that they are very proud; people who lie [MTY]; people [SYN] who kill others [SYN] who have done nothing wrong;
Eyes haughty a tongue of falsehood and hands [which] shed blood innocent.
18 people who plan to do evil deeds; people [SYN] who run quickly to do wrong things;
A heart [which] devises plans of wickedness feet [which] hurry to run to evil.
19 people who easily tell lies in court; and people who cause strife between family members.
[who] he breathes out Lies a witness of falsehood and [one who] spreads contentions between brothers.
20 My son, obey my commands, and do not ignore what your mother has taught you.
Keep O son my [the] commandment of father your and may not you forsake [the] instruction of mother your.
21 Remember the things that we have said. Those things should be [like a beautiful necklace] around your neck.
Bind them on heart your continually tie them on necks your.
22 [If you follow our advice, it will be as though] what we have taught you [PRS] will lead you, wherever you go. When you sleep, they will protect you. And when you wake up in the morning, they will teach/instruct you.
When walking about you - it will guide you when lying down you it will watch over you and you will awake it it will speak to you.
23 These commands and what we teach you [will be like] a lamp to light your path [MET]. When we rebuke you and correct/punish you, we will be showing you the road to having [a good] life.
For [is] a lamp [the] commandment and [the] instruction [is] a light and [are] a way of life rebukes of discipline.
24 Heeding [PRS] these commands and things that we have taught you will enable you to keep away from immoral women and from [listening to] the enticing words of an adulterous woman.
To keep you from a woman of evil from smoothness of tongue a foreign [woman].
25 [Even] if such a woman is beautiful and has lovely eyes, do not desire to go with her. Do not let her persuade you to go with her (with her eyes/by the way she looks at you).
May not you desire beauty her in heart your and may not she capture you with eyelids her.
26 [Do not forget that] you can hire a prostitute for only a loaf of bread, but [if you sleep with] another man’s wife, (it may cost you/you may lose) your life.
For [the] price a woman a prostitute to a round loaf of bread and [the] wife of a man a life precious she hunts.
27 Can you carry hot coals in your pocket and not be burned [RHQ]?
¿ Will he snatch up a man fire in bosom his and garments his not will they be burned?
28 Can you walk on burning coals and not scorch/burn your feet?
Or? will he walk? a man on burning coals and feet his not will they be scorched.
29 [No]! And in the same way, anyone who (sleeps with/has sex with) another man’s wife will [suffer for doing that]. [He will certainly] [LIT] be punished severely.
[is] thus The [one who] goes into [the] wife of neighbor his not he will go unpunished every [one who] touches her.
30 We do not despise a thief if he steals some food because he is very hungry.
Not people despise the thief if he will steal to fill appetite his for he will be hungry.
31 But [if he steals something and then] is caught [by the police], he will have to pay back (seven times as much as/much more than) he stole. He may need to sell everything that is in his house [to get enough money to pay it back].
And he will be found out he will make restitution sevenfold all [the] wealth of house his he will give.
32 [But] a man who commits adultery with some woman is very foolish, [because] he is destroying his own self/soul [by what he is doing].
[one who] commits adultery A woman [is] lacking of heart [one who] destroys own self his he he will do it.
33 [That woman’s husband] will wound him badly, and [other people] will despise him. His shame will never end.
A wound and shame he will find and reproach his not it will be wiped away.
34 Because that woman’s husband will (be jealous/not want anyone else to sleep with her), he will become furious, and when he gets revenge, he will not act mercifully [toward the man who slept with his wife].
For jealousy [is the] rage of a man and not he will have compassion on a day of vengeance.
35 And he will not accept any bribe/money, even if it is a big bribe, to (appease him/cause him to stop being angry).
Not he will lift up [the] face of any ransom and not he will be willing for you will make great a bribe.
