Proverbes 6.16
English standard version

Le danger de se porter garant

¹ My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
have given your pledge for a stranger,
² if you are snared in the words of your mouth,
caught in the words of your mouth,
³ then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.
⁴ Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
⁵ save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

La paresse

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard;
consider her ways, and be wise.
⁷ Without having any chief,
officer, or ruler,
⁸ she prepares her bread in summer
and gathers her food in harvest.
⁹ How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?
¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
¹¹ and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
and want like an armed man.

L’homme double

¹² A worthless person, a wicked man,
goes about with crooked speech,
¹³ winks with his eyes, signals with his feet,
points with his finger,
¹⁴ with perverted heart devises evil,
continually sowing discord;
¹⁵ therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly;
in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
¹⁶ There are six things that the Lord hates,
seven that are an abomination to him:
¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
¹⁹ a false witness who breathes out lies,
and one who sows discord among brothers.

Les conséquences de l’adultère

²⁰ My son, keep your father's commandment,
and forsake not your mother's teaching.
²¹ Bind them on your heart always;
tie them around your neck.
²² 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.
²³ For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
²⁴ to preserve you from the evil woman,
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
²⁵ Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
²⁶ for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,
but a married woman hunts down a precious life.
²⁷ Can a man carry fire next to his chest
and his clothes not be burned?
²⁸ Or can one walk on hot coals
and his feet not be scorched?
²⁹ So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;
none who touches her will go unpunished.
³⁰ People do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
³¹ but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;
he will give all the goods of his house.
³² He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.
³³ He will get wounds and dishonor,
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
³⁴ For jealousy makes a man furious,
and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
³⁵ He will accept no compensation;
he will refuse though you multiply gifts.