³ Do the following things, my son, so that you may free yourself,
    because you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:
        Humble yourself,
            and pester your neighbor.
⁴ Don’t let your eyes rest
    or your eyelids close.
⁵ Free yourself like a gazelle from the hand of a hunter
    and like a bird from the hand of a hunter.

⁶ Consider the ant, you lazy bum.
    Watch its ways, and become wise.
⁷ Although it has no overseer, officer, or ruler,
⁸ in summertime it stores its food supply.
    At harvest time it gathers its food.

⁹ How long will you lie there, you lazy bum?
    When will you get up from your sleep?
¹⁰ “Just a little sleep,
    just a little slumber,
    just a little nap.”
¹¹ Then your poverty will come to you like a drifter,
    and your need will come to you like a bandit.

¹² A good-for-nothing scoundrel is a person who has a dishonest mouth.
¹³ He winks his eye,
    makes a signal with his foot,
        and points with his fingers.
¹⁴ He devises evil all the time with a twisted mind.
    He spreads conflict.
¹⁵ That is why disaster will come on him suddenly.
    In a moment he will be crushed beyond recovery.

¹⁶ There are six things that Yahweh hates,
    even seven that are disgusting to him:
¹⁷ arrogant eyes,
    a lying tongue,
        hands that kill innocent people,
¹⁸ a mind devising wicked plans,
    feet that are quick to do wrong,
¹⁹ a dishonest witness spitting out lies,
    and a person who spreads conflict among relatives.

²⁵ Do not desire her beauty in your heart.
    Do not let her catch you with her eyes.
²⁶ A prostitute’s price is only a loaf of bread,
    but a married woman hunts for your life itself.
²⁷ Can a man carry fire in his lap
    without burning his clothes?
²⁸ Can anyone walk on red-hot coals
    without burning his feet?
²⁹ So it is with a man who has sex with his neighbor’s wife.
    None who touch her will escape punishment.
³⁰ People do not despise a thief who is hungry
    when he steals to satisfy his appetite,
³¹ but when he is caught,
    he has to repay it seven times.
        He must give up all the possessions in his house.

³² Whoever commits adultery with a woman has no sense.
    Whoever does this destroys himself.
³³ An adulterous man will find disease^[a] and dishonor,
    and his disgrace will not be blotted out,
³⁴ because jealousy arouses a husband’s fury.
    The husband will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
³⁵ No amount of money will change his mind.
    The largest bribe will not satisfy him.