1My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, (Job 17,3)2if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, (Przyp 5,22)3then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten,[1] and plead urgently with your neighbor. (Łk 11,8; Łk 18,5)4Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; (Ps 132,4; Przyp 20,13)5save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,[2] like a bird from the hand of the fowler. (Ps 91,3)6Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. (Job 12,7; Przyp 10,26; Przyp 23,19; Przyp 27,11; Przyp 30,25)7Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, (Wj 5,6; Wj 5,15; Przyp 30,27)8she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. (Przyp 10,5)9How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? (Przyp 6,6; Jon 1,6)10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, (Przyp 24,33; Kazn 4,5)11and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man. (Przyp 24,34)12A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, (Przyp 4,24; Przyp 16,27)13winks with his eyes, signals[3] with his feet, points with his finger, (Ps 35,19; Przyp 10,10)14with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; (Przyp 2,12; Przyp 3,29; Przyp 16,28; Mi 2,1)15therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. (2 Krn 36,16; Przyp 29,1; Iz 30,13; Jer 19,11)16There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: (Job 5,19)17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, (Pwt 19,10; Ps 31,18; Ps 101,5; Ps 120,2; Przyp 8,13; Przyp 12,22; Przyp 16,5; Przyp 17,7; Przyp 21,4; Iz 1,15; Iz 59,3; Iz 59,7)18a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, (Rdz 6,5; Przyp 1,16)19a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. (Ps 27,12; Przyp 6,14; Przyp 12,17; Przyp 14,5; Przyp 14,25; Przyp 19,5; Przyp 19,9)
Warnings Against Adultery
20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. (Przyp 1,8)21Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck. (Job 31,36; Przyp 3,3)22When you walk, they[4] will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you. (Przyp 2,11; Przyp 3,23)23For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, (Ps 13,3; Ps 119,105; Przyp 10,17)24to preserve you from the evil woman,[5] from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.[6] (Przyp 2,16)25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; (2 Krl 9,30; Mt 5,28)26for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,[7] but a married woman[8] hunts down a precious life. (1 Sm 2,36; Przyp 28,21; Przyp 29,3; Ez 13,18)27Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned? (Job 31,12; Ps 79,12)28Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? (Iz 43,2)29So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished. (Przyp 16,5)30People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry, (Job 38,39)31but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house. (Wj 22,4; Ps 79,12)32He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.33He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.34For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge. (Kpł 20,10; Przyp 27,4; Pnp 8,6)35He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.