Proverbs 6:1-6

New International Version

Warnings Against Folly

6 My son,^(A) if you have put up security^(B) for your neighbor,^(C)
    if you have shaken hands in pledge^(D) for a stranger,
²you have been trapped by what you said,
    ensnared by the words of your mouth.
³So do this, my son, to free yourself,
    since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:
Go—to the point of exhaustion—^[a]
    and give your neighbor no rest!
⁴Allow no sleep to your eyes,
    no slumber to your eyelids.^(E)
⁵Free yourself, like a gazelle^(F) from the hand of the hunter,^(G)
    like a bird from the snare of the fowler.^(H)

⁶Go to the ant, you sluggard;^(I)
consider its ways and be wise!

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Proverbs 6:3 Or Go and humble yourself,

Proverbs 6:13-18

New International Version

¹³    who winks maliciously with his eye,^(A)
    signals with his feet
    and motions with his fingers,^(B)
¹⁴    who plots evil^(C) with deceit in his heart—
    he always stirs up conflict.^(D)
¹⁵Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant;^(E)
    he will suddenly^(F) be destroyed—without remedy.^(G)

¹⁶There are six things the Lord hates,^(H)
    seven that are detestable to him:
¹⁷        haughty eyes,^(I)
        a lying tongue,^(J)
        hands that shed innocent blood,^(K)
¹⁸        a heart that devises wicked schemes,
        feet that are quick to rush into evil,^(L)