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My child, have you promised to be responsible for someone else's debts? |
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Have you been caught by your own words, trapped by your own promises? |
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Well then, my child, you are in that person's power, but this is how to get out of it: hurry to him, and beg him to release you. |
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Don't let yourself go to sleep or even stop to rest. |
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Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter. |
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Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live. |
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They have no leader, chief, or ruler, |
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but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter. |
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How long is the lazy man going to lie around? When is he ever going to get up? |
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"I'll just take a short nap," he says; "I'll fold my hands and rest a while." |
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But while he sleeps, poverty will attack him like an armed robber. |
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Worthless, wicked people go around telling lies. |
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They wink and make gestures to deceive you, |
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all the while planning evil in their perverted minds, stirring up trouble everywhere. |
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Because of this, disaster will strike them without warning, and they will be fatally wounded. |
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There are seven things that the LORD hates and cannot tolerate: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that kill innocent people, a mind that thinks up wicked plans, feet that hurry off to do evil, a witness who tells one lie after another, and someone who stirs up trouble among friends. |
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Son, do what your father tells you and never forget what your mother taught you. |
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Keep their words with you always, locked in your heart. |
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Their teaching will lead you when you travel, protect you at night, and advise you during the day. |
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Their instructions are a shining light; their correction can teach you how to live. |
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It can keep you away from bad women, from the seductive words of other men's wives. |
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Don't be tempted by their beauty; don't be trapped by their flirting eyes. |
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A man can hire a prostitute for the price of a loaf of bread, but adultery will cost him all he has. |
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Can you carry fire against your chest without burning your clothes? |
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Can you walk on hot coals without burning your feet? |
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It is just as dangerous to sleep with another man's wife. Whoever does it will suffer. |
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People don't despise a thief if he steals food when he is hungry; |
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yet if he is caught, he must pay back seven times more---he must give up everything he has. |
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But a man who commits adultery doesn't have any sense. He is just destroying himself. |
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He will be dishonored and beaten up; he will be permanently disgraced. |
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A husband is never angrier than when he is jealous; his revenge knows no limits. |
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He will not accept any payment; no amount of gifts will satisfy his anger. |
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