{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-15T11:22:51.156Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":6,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":5,"nextChapter":7,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":35},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken — and no healing."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Eyes high — tongues false — And hands shedding innocent blood — "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"A heart devising thoughts of vanity — Feet hasting to run to evil — "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"A false witness who doth breathe out lies — And one sending forth contentions between brethren."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked — it talketh with thee."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"So is he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,"},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"For jealousy is the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 6 (YLT)","markdown":"[Proverbs 6](https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/proverbs/6 (accessed 2026-06-15)."}}