Proverbs 6:1-15 ▼

1 My sonne if thou be suretie for thy neyghbour, and hast fastened thyne hande for another man:

2 Thou art bounde with thine owne wordes, and taken with thine owne speach.

3 Therfore my sonne do this, and thou shalt be discharged: When thou art come into thy neyghbours daunger, go thy wayes then soone, humble thy selfe, and with thy frendes intreate thy creditour.

4 Let not thyne eyes sleepe, nor thyne eye liddes slumber.

5 Saue thy self as a Doe from the hand of the hunter and as a byrde from the hande of the fouler.

6 Go to the emmet thou sluggarde, consider her wayes, and learne to be wyse:

7 She hath no guyde, nor ouerseer, nor ruler,

8 Yet in the sommer she prouideth her meate, and gathereth her foode together in the haruest.

9 Howe long wylt thou sleepe thou sluggishe man? When wylt thou aryse out of thy sleepe?

10 Yea, sleepe on still a litle, slumber a litle, folde thyne handes together yet a litle that thou mayest sleepe:

11 So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie like a weaponed man.

12 An vngodly person, a wicked man, goeth with a frowarde mouth.

13 He winketh with his eyes, he tokeneth with his feete, he teacheth with his fingers.

14 He is euer imagining mischiefe and frowardnes in his heart, and causeth discorde.

15 Therefore shall his destruction come hastyly vpon hym, sodainly shall he be all to broken, and not be healed.