Seeking Wisdom Together – Proverbs 6, 1-19

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,^[a] 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.  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.  ¹² A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, ¹³ winks with his eyes, signals^[c] 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.