Proverbes 6.9
New International Version

Le danger de se porter garant

¹ My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,

² you have been trapped by what you said,
ensnared by the words of your mouth.

³ So do this, my son, to free yourself,
since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:
Go — to the point of exhaustion —
and give your neighbor no rest!

⁴ Allow no sleep to your eyes,
no slumber to your eyelids.

⁵ Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

La paresse

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!

⁷ It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,

⁸ yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

⁹ How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
When will you get up from your sleep?

¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest —

¹¹ and poverty will come on you like a thief
and scarcity like an armed man.

L’homme double

¹² A troublemaker and a villain,
who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

¹³ who winks maliciously with his eye,
signals with his feet
and motions with his fingers,

¹⁴ who plots evil with deceit in his heart —
he always stirs up conflict.

¹⁵ Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant;
he will suddenly be destroyed — without remedy.

¹⁶ There are six things the Lord hates,
seven that are detestable to him:

¹⁷ haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,

¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,

¹⁹ a false witness who pours out lies
and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.

Les conséquences de l’adultère

²⁰ My son, keep your father’s command
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

²¹ Bind them always on your heart;
fasten them around your neck.

²² When you walk, they will guide you;
when you sleep, they will watch over you;
when you awake, they will speak to you.

²³ For this command is a lamp,
this teaching is a light,
and correction and instruction
are the way to life,

²⁴ keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.

²⁵ Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyes.

²⁶ For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,
but another man’s wife preys on your very life.

²⁷ Can a man scoop fire into his lap
without his clothes being burned?

²⁸ Can a man walk on hot coals
without his feet being scorched?

²⁹ So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.

³⁰ People do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

³¹ Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,
though it costs him all the wealth of his house.

³² But a man who commits adultery has no sense;
whoever does so destroys himself.

³³ Blows and disgrace are his lot,
and his shame will never be wiped away.

³⁴ For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury,
and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

³⁵ He will not accept any compensation;
he will refuse a bribe, however great it is.