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Proverbs
Chapter
06
1-2
My son, if you be surety for your friend,
if
you have stricken your hand with a stranger, 2
you
are snared with the words of your mouth,
you
are taken with the words of your mouth.
3
Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
when
you are come into the hand of your friend;
go,
humble yourself, and make sure your friend.
4
Give not sleep to your eyes,
nor
slumber to your eyelids.
5
Deliver yourself as a roe/deer from the hand of the hunter,
and
as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6
Go to the ant, you sluggard . . .
consider
her ways, and be wise.
7-8
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8
provides
her meat in the summer,
and
gathers her food in the harvest.
9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard?
When will you arise out of your sleep?
10
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
a
little folding of the hands to sleep.
11
So shall your poverty come as one that travels,
and
your want as an armed man.
12
A naughty person, a wicked man,
walks
with a crooked/distorted mouth.
13
He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet,
he
teaches with his fingers.
14
Crookedness/distortedness is in his heart . . .
he
devises mischief continually . . . he sows discord.
15
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly . . .
suddenly
shall he be broken without remedy.
{Verses
16-19: The Only Octastich in Proverbs}
{Proverbs
Chapter 6:16-19 -
The seven greatest sins in the Eyes of Jehovah/God}
16-19~~These
six things does Jehovah/God hate.
{sane' - means to abhor something that is 'ugly'}
Yes,
seven are an abomination unto Him: 17~~
{1}
a proud look,
{Pride - category of mental attitude sin}
{2}
a lying tongue, and
{Lying - category of sins of the tongue}
{3}
hands that shed innocent blood
{Murder - category of overt sins}, 18~~
{4}
a 'right frontal lobe'/heart that devises wicked imaginations
{hatred -mental attitude sin},
{5}
feet that be swift in running to mischief
{idiom for 'gossip' - sin of the tongue}, 19~~
{6}
a false witness that speaks lies, and
{perjury in a court setting - sin of the tongue},
{7}
he that sows discord among brethren.
{maligning/inciting revolution - trouble makers - sin of the tongue}
{Note: Syntactically, these verses show that in the Eyes of Jehovah/God, mental attitude sins are the worst to Him. And, as opposed to what our human viewpoint says, only one overt sin is HIGH on His list of the worst sins. Pride is first! And was Satan's first sin! There are 2 mental attitude sins, 4 sins of the tongue, and only 1 overt sin in the list of worst!}
20
My son, keep your father's commandment . . .
and
forsake not the law of your mother.
21
Bind them continually upon your heart,
and
tie them about your neck.
22
When you go, it shall lead you . . .
when
you sleep, it shall keep you;
and
when you awake, it shall talk with you.
23
For the commandment is a lamp;
and
the law is light;
and
reproofs of instruction are the Way of life.
24
To keep you from the evil woman,
from
the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
25
Lust not after her beauty in your heart;
neither
let her take you with her eyelids.
26
For by means of a whorish woman
a
man is brought to a piece of bread
and
the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
29
So he that goes in to his neighbor's wife;
whosoever
touches her . . . shall not be innocent.
30
Men do not despise a thief,
if
he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry . . . 31
but
if he be found,
he
shall restore sevenfold.
He shall give all the substance of his house.
32
But whosoever commits adultery with a woman
lacks
understanding.
He that does it destroys his own soul.
33
A wound and dishonor shall he get . . .
and
his reproach shall not be wiped away.
34
For jealousy is the rage of a man . . .
therefore
he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
35
He will not regard any ransom . . .
neither
will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
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