These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Proverbs 6
Tanakh 35 verses
- 1 My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbour, If thou hast struck thy hands for a stranger—
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Thou art snared by the words of thy mouth, Thou art caught by the words of thy mouth—
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Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbour; Go, humble thyself, and urge thy neighbour.
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Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
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Deliver thyself as a gazelle 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 chief, Overseer, or ruler,
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Provideth her bread in the summer, And gatherest 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 a runner, And thy want as an armed man.
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A base person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a froward mouth;
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That winketh with his eyes, that scrapeth with his feet, That pointeth with his fingers;
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- 14 Frowardness is in his , he deviseth evil continually; He soweth discord.
- 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.
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There are six things which hateth, Yea, seven which are an abomination unto Him:
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Proverbs 3:32 Proverbs 11:1 Deuteronomy 25:16 Proverbs 11:20 Deuteronomy 18:10-12 Psalm 11:5 Proverbs 15:8-9 Proverbs 30:18 Proverbs 30:21 Proverbs 17:15 Proverbs 8:13 Revelation 21:27 Amos 1:3 Amos 1:9 Amos 2:1 Proverbs 30:24 Proverbs 20:23 Amos 1:6 Proverbs 20:10 Proverbs 30:29 Amos 2:4 Amos 1:11 Amos 2:6 Deuteronomy 24:4 Deuteronomy 23:18 -
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Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent ;
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Proverbs 12:22 Isaiah 1:15 Psalm 101:5 Psalm 120:2-3 Isaiah 2:11 Isaiah 3:16 Psalm 5:6 Deuteronomy 19:10 Proverbs 30:13 Proverbs 21:4 Isaiah 3:9 Proverbs 26:28 Proverbs 14:5 Proverbs 1:11 Psalm 18:27 Isaiah 59:3-7 John 8:44 Deuteronomy 27:25 1 Peter 5:5 Revelation 22:15 Psalm 10:4 2 Kings 24:4 Psalm 131:1 Psalm 73:6-8 Proverbs 17:7 Psalm 31:18 Hosea 4:1-2 -
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A that deviseth wicked thoughts, Feet that are swift in running to evil;
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A false witness that breatheth out lies, And he that soweth discord among brethren.
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My son, keep the of thy father, And forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
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Bind them continually upon thy , Tie them about thy neck.
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- 22 When thou walkest, it shall lead thee, When thou liest down, it shall watch over thee; And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
- 23 For the is a lamp, and the teaching is light, And reproofs of instruction are the way of life;
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To keep thee from the evil woman, From the smoothness of the alien tongue.
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Lust not after her beauty in thy ; Neither let her captivate thee with her eyelids.
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- 26 For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a loaf of bread, But the adulteress hunteth 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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- 28 Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?
- 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not go unpunished.
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Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy his when he is hungry;
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But if he be found, he must restore sevenfold, He must give all the substance of his house.
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- 32 He that committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding; He doeth it that would destroy his own .
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Wounds 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, And 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.
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