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Chapter 8
6 Listen to me! For I have important things to tell you.
      Everything I say is right,
 7 for I speak the truth
      and detest every kind of deception.
 8 My advice is wholesome.
      There is nothing devious or crooked in it.
 9 My words are plain to anyone with understanding,
      clear to those with knowledge.
 10 Choose my instruction rather than silver,
      and knowledge rather than pure gold.
 11 For wisdom is far more valuable than rubies.
      Nothing you desire can compare with it.

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Chapter 8

1 Listen as Wisdom calls out!
      Hear as understanding raises her voice!
 2 On the hilltop along the road,
      she takes her stand at the crossroads.
 3 By the gates at the entrance to the town,
      on the road leading in, she cries aloud,
 4 “I call to you, to all of you!
      I raise my voice to all people.
 5 You simple people, use good judgment.
      You foolish people, show some understanding.

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Proverbs, Chapter 6
30 Excuses might be found for a thief
      who steals because he is starving.
 31 But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole,
      even if he has to sell everything in his house.
 32 But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool,
      for he destroys himself.
 33 He will be wounded and disgraced.
      His shame will never be erased.
 34 For the woman’s jealous husband will be furious,
      and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
 35 He will accept no compensation,
      nor be satisfied with a payoff of any size.

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Chapter 6
27 Can a man scoop a flame into his lap
      and not have his clothes catch on fire?
 28 Can he walk on hot coals
      and not blister his feet?
 29 So it is with the man who sleeps with another man’s wife.
      He who embraces her will not go unpunished.

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Proverbs Chapter 6

20 My son, obey your father’s commands,
      and don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.
 21 Keep their words always in your heart.
      Tie them around your neck.
 22 When you walk, their counsel will lead you.
      When you sleep, they will protect you.
      When you wake up, they will advise you.
 23 For their command is a lamp
      and their instruction a light;
   their corrective discipline
      is the way to life.
 24 It will keep you from the immoral woman,
      from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman.
 25 Don’t lust for her beauty.
      Don’t let her coy glances seduce you.
 26 For a prostitute will bring you to poverty,
      but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.

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Proverbs, Chapter 6
 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 man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

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Proverbs, Chapter 6
 12 A scoundrel and villain,
       who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
 13 who winks 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 dissension.
 15 Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant;
       he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.

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Proverbs, Chapter 6

 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 bandit
       and scarcity like an armed man.

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Proverbs chapter 6
 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.

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Proverbs, Chapter 6

 1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
       if you have struck hands in pledge for another,
 2 if you have been trapped by what you said,
       ensnared by the words of your mouth,
 3 then do this, my son, to free yourself,
       since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:
       Go and humble yourself;
       press your plea with your neighbor!
 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.
A Modern rendering of this portions reads like this:
 1-5 Dear friend, if you’ve gone into hock with your neighbor or locked yourself into a deal with a stranger,
If you’ve impulsively promised the shirt off your back
   and now find yourself shivering out in the cold,
Friend, don’t waste a minute, get yourself out of that mess.
   You’re in that man’s clutches!
   Go, put on a long face; act desperate.
Don’t procrastinate—
   there’s no time to lose.
Run like a deer from the hunter,
   fly like a bird from the trapper! 
Doesn’t that sound like good advice?