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And running waters out of thine own well.

¹⁶Let thy springs be dispersed abroad,

And courses of water in the streets.

¹⁷Let them be only thine own,

And not strangers' with thee.

¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed;

And have joy of the wife of thy youth.

¹⁹A lovely hind and a graceful doe,

Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;

With her love be thou ravished always.

²⁰Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,

And embrace the bosom of an alien?

 

²¹For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord,

And He maketh even all his paths.

²²His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked,

And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

²³He shall die for lack of instruction;

And in the greatness of his folly he shall reel.

6 My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbour,

If thou hast struck thy hands for a stranger—

²Thou art snared by the words of thy mouth,

Thou art caught by the words of thy mouth—

³Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself,

Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbour;

Go, humble thyself, and urge thy neighbour.

⁴Give not sleep to thine eyes,

nor slumber to thine eyelids.

⁵Deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand [of the hunter],

And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

 

⁶Go to the ant, thou sluggard;

Consider her ways, and be wise;

⁷Which having no chief,

Overseer, or ruler,

⁸Provideth her bread in the summer,

And gatherest her food in the harvest.

⁹How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?

When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

¹⁰'Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,

A little folding of the hands to sleep'—

¹¹So shall thy poverty come as a runner,

And thy want as an armed man.

 

¹²A base person, a man of iniquity,

Is he that walketh with a froward mouth;

¹³That winketh with his eyes, that scrapeth with his feet,

That pointeth with his fingers;

¹⁴Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually;

He soweth discord.

¹⁵Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;

On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.

 

¹⁶There are six things which the Lord hateth,

Yea, seven which are an abomination unto Him:

¹⁷Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,

And hands that shed innocent blood;

¹⁸A heart that deviseth wicked thoughts,

Feet that are swift in running to evil;

¹⁹A false witness that breatheth out lies,

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