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My son if thou be surety for thy friend if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger
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Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth thou art taken with the words of thy mouth
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Do this now my son and deliver thyself when thou art come into the hand of thy friend go humble thyself and make sure thy friend
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Give not sleep to thine eyes nor slumber to thine eyelids
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Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler
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Go to the ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise
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Which having no guide overseer or ruler
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Provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest
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How long wilt thou sleep O sluggard when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep
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Yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep
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So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth and thy want as an armed man
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A naughty person a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth
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He winketh with his eyes he speaketh with his feet he teacheth with his fingers
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Frowardness is in his heart he deviseth mischief continually he soweth discord
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Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly suddenly shall he be broken without remedy
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These six things doth the LORD hate yea seven are an abomination unto him
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A proud look a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood
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An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations feet that be swift in running to mischief
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A false witness that speaketh lies and he that soweth discord among brethren
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My son keep thy ather’s commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother
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Bind them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck
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When thou goest it shall lead thee when thou sleepest it shall keep thee and when thou awakest it shall talk with thee
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For the commandment is a lamp and the law is light and reproofs of instruction are the way of life
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To keep thee from the evil woman from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman
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Lust not after her beauty in thine heart neither let her take thee with her eyelids
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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
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Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned
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Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned
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So he that goeth in to his ne hbour’s wife whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent
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Men do not despise a thief if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry
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But if he be found he shall restore sevenfold he shall give all the substance of his house
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But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul
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A wound and dishonour shall he get and his reproach shall not be wiped away
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For jealousy is the rage of a man therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance
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He will not regard any ransom neither will he rest content though thou givest many gifts