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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_021_PRO_06_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_021_PRO_06_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b55492 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_021_PRO_06_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Proverbs. +Chapter 6. +My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another, +You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you. +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. +Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them; +Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her. +Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: +Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, +She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting. +How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep? +A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: +Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man +A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words; +Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers; +His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts. +For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him. +Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him: +Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause; +A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin; +A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers. +My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother: +Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck. +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. +For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life. +They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman. +Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner. +For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life. +May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing? +Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned? +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. +Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it: +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. +He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul. +Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away. +For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy. +He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased. |