New Revised Standard (NRS)
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Նոր Կտակարան
1 My child, if you have given your pled…
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My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to another, [a]
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you are snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth.
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So do this, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hurry, and plead with your neighbor.
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Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
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save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
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Without having any chief or officer or ruler,
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it prepares its food in summer, and gathers its sustenance in harvest.
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How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
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and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.
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A scoundrel and a villain goes around with crooked speech,
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winking the eyes, shuffling the feet, pointing the fingers,
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with perverted mind devising evil, continually sowing discord;
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on such a one calamity will descend suddenly; in a moment, damage beyond repair.
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There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
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haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that hurry to run to evil,
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a lying witness who testifies falsely, and one who sows discord in a family.
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My child, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
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Bind them upon your heart always; tie them around your neck.
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When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.
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For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
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to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
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Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
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for a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man's very life.
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Can fire be carried in the bosom without burning one's clothes?
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Or can one walk on hot coals without scorching the feet?
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So is he who sleeps with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
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Thieves are not despised who steal only to satisfy their appetite when they are hungry.
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Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold; they will forfeit all the goods of their house.
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But he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
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He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
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For jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he shows no restraint when he takes revenge.
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He will accept no compensation, and refuses a bribe no matter how great.