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Proverbs 6 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:1 - My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:2 - You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:3 - Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:4 - Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:5 - Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:6 - Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:7 - Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:8 - She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:9 - How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:10 - A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:11 - Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:12 - A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:13 - Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:14 - His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:15 - For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:16 - Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:17 - Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:18 - A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:19 - A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:20 - My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:21 - Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:22 - In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:23 - For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:24 - They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:25 - Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:26 - For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:27 - May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:28 - Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:29 - So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:30 - Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:31 - But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:32 - He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:33 - Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:34 - For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:35 - He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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Proverbs Chapter 6 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras