Proverbs 6:6-28

New International Version

⁶Go to the ant, you sluggard;^(A)
    consider its ways and be wise!
⁷It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
⁸yet it stores its provisions in summer^(B)
    and gathers its food at harvest.^(C)

⁹How long will you lie there, you sluggard?^(D)
    When will you get up from your sleep?
¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest^(E)—
¹¹and poverty^(F) will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

¹²A troublemaker and a villain,
    who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
¹³    who winks maliciously with his eye,^(G)
    signals with his feet
    and motions with his fingers,^(H)
¹⁴    who plots evil^(I) with deceit in his heart—
    he always stirs up conflict.^(J)
¹⁵Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant;^(K)
    he will suddenly^(L) be destroyed—without remedy.^(M)

¹⁶There are six things the Lord hates,^(N)
    seven that are detestable to him:
¹⁷        haughty eyes,^(O)
        a lying tongue,^(P)
        hands that shed innocent blood,^(Q)
¹⁸        a heart that devises wicked schemes,
        feet that are quick to rush into evil,^(R)
¹⁹        a false witness^(S) who pours out lies^(T)
        and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.^(U)

Warning Against Adultery

²⁰My son,^(V) keep your father’s command
    and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.^(W)
²¹Bind them always on your heart;
    fasten them around your neck.^(X)
²²When you walk, they will guide you;
    when you sleep, they will watch over you;
    when you awake, they will speak to you.
²³For this command is a lamp,
    this teaching is a light,^(Y)
and correction and instruction
    are the way to life,^(Z)
²⁴keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.^(AA)

²⁵Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyes.

²⁶For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,
    but another man’s wife preys on your very life.^(AB)
²⁷Can a man scoop fire into his lap
    without his clothes being burned?
²⁸Can a man walk on hot coals
    without his feet being scorched?