Warnings against Foolishness
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, Pro 17:18Pro 22:26Pro 11:15Pro 20:16Gen 43:9Gen 44:32-33Heb 7:22Job 17:3
if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,
if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, Pro 18:7Pro 12:13
ensnared by the words of your mouth,
then do this, my son, to free yourself, Jas 4:102Sa 24:14Psa 31:82Ch 12:52Ch 36:12Exo 10:3
for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:
Go, humble yourself, 1
and press your plea with your neighbor.
Allow no sleep to your eyes Psa 132:4Pro 6:10-11Mrk 13:35-36Ecc 9:10Mat 24:17-18
or slumber to your eyelids.
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, 2 Psa 91:3Psa 124:7Pro 1:17Psa 11:1
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; Pro 20:4Pro 18:9Pro 13:4Pro 6:9Heb 6:12Mat 25:26Pro 30:25Rom 12:11
observe its ways and become wise.
Without a commander, Job 38:39Pro 30:27Job 39:26-30Job 41:4-34
without an overseer or ruler,
it prepares its provisions in summer; Pro 10:51Ti 6:19Pro 30:25
it gathers its food at harvest.
How long will you lie there, O slacker? Pro 24:33-34Psa 94:8Eph 5:14Jer 4:141Th 5:2-7Pro 1:22Rom 13:11Jhn 1:6
When will you get up from your sleep?
A little sleep, a little slumber, Pro 24:33-34Pro 6:6Pro 23:33-34
a little folding of the hands to rest,
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, Pro 13:4Pro 10:4Pro 20:4Pro 24:34
and need like a bandit.
A worthless person, a wicked man, Mat 12:341Ti 5:13Pro 16:27Pro 4:24Psa 52:2-4Psa 59:7Act 20:30Pro 17:4
walks with a perverse mouth,
winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, Psa 35:19Job 15:12Pro 10:10Pro 5:6
and pointing with his fingers.
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; Mic 2:1Rom 16:17Hos 8:7Pro 6:18-19Pro 2:14Pro 26:17-22Psa 36:4Ezk 11:2
he continually sows discord.
Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; 2Ch 36:16Jer 19:111Th 5:3Isa 30:13-14Pro 1:27Psa 73:18-20Pro 29:1Psa 50:22
in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: Psa 11:5Pro 8:13Pro 11:20Deu 25:16Pro 17:15Pro 3:32Pro 11:1Deu 24:4
haughty eyes, Psa 120:2-3Pro 12:22Isa 1:15Psa 101:5Psa 5:6Deu 27:25Isa 3:9Pro 21:4
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked schemes, Gen 6:5Pro 1:16Jer 4:14Psa 36:4Rom 3:15Isa 59:7Zec 8:17Mic 2:1
feet that run swiftly to evil,
a false witness who gives false testimony, Pro 19:5Pro 6:14Jas 3:18Pro 19:9Psa 27:12Deu 19:16-20Jas 3:14-16Pro 25:18
and one who stirs up discord among brothers.
Warnings against Adultery
My son, keep your father’s commandment, Eph 6:1Deu 27:16Pro 7:1-4Pro 1:8-9Pro 23:22Deu 21:18Pro 30:11
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Bind them always upon your heart; Pro 3:3Pro 7:3-42Co 3:3Deu 6:8Exo 13:16Pro 4:6Pro 4:21
tie them around your neck.
When you walk, they will guide you; Psa 119:11Pro 3:23-24Pro 2:11Psa 119:24Psa 119:97Psa 43:3Psa 119:148Psa 119:54
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
when you awake, they will speak to you.
For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, Psa 119:1052Pe 1:19Psa 19:8Pro 15:31Pro 4:13Pro 4:4Jer 21:8Pro 15:24
and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
to keep you from the evil woman, Ecc 7:26Pro 2:16Pro 5:3Pro 7:5
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. 3
Do not lust in your heart for her beauty Jas 1:14-15Mat 5:282Ki 9:302Sa 11:2-5Isa 3:16Sng 4:9
or let her captivate you with her eyes. 4
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, 5 Luk 15:30Pro 29:31Sa 2:36Gen 39:14Ezk 13:18Ezk 13:8Luk 15:13-15Pro 29:8
and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
Can a man embrace fire Job 31:9-12Hos 7:4-7Jas 3:5
and his clothes not be burned?
Can a man walk on hot coals
without scorching his feet?
So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; 1Co 7:12Sa 12:9-10Ezk 22:11Lev 20:10Mal 3:52Sa 11:3-42Sa 16:21Gen 12:18-19
no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Men do not despise the thief Job 38:39
if he steals to satisfy his hunger.
Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; Luk 19:82Sa 12:6Exo 22:1-4Job 20:18Mat 18:25
he must give up all the wealth of his house.
He who commits adultery lacks judgment; Pro 7:7Heb 13:4Pro 7:22-23Rom 1:22-24Ecc 7:25-26Pro 2:18-19Exo 20:14Gen 39:9-10
whoever does so destroys himself.
Wounds and dishonor will befall him, Pro 5:9-111Ki 15:5Gen 49:4Jdg 16:19-21Mat 1:6Neh 13:26Psa 38:1-8Psa 51:1
and his reproach will never be wiped away.
For jealousy enrages a husband, Num 5:14Pro 27:4Sng 8:61Co 10:22Jdg 19:29-30Num 25:11
and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.
He will not be appeased by any ransom, 2Ki 5:1Isa 2:9Mal 2:9Pro 4:3Pro 7:13Pro 8:25
or persuaded by lavish gifts.