My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
if thou hast stricken: to strike or join hands was an ancient
form of entering into contracts in all counties and all ages.
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
the ant has been famous for centuries for its social habits
foresight, economy and industry. Collecting their food at the proper seasons, they bite off the end of the grain to prevent it from germinating and lay it up in cells till needed.
Proverbs 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Job 12:7,8 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the fowls of …
Isaiah 1:3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel …
Matthew 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, …
thou
Proverbs 6:9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?
Proverbs 10:26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard …
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing: but the soul of …
Proverbs 15:19 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way …
Proverbs 18:9 He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
Proverbs 19:15,24 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger…
Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall …
Proverbs 21:25 The desire of the slothful kills him; for his hands refuse to labor.
Proverbs 22:13 The slothful man said, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Proverbs 24:30-34 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man …
Proverbs 26:13-16 The slothful man said, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets…
Matthew 25:26 His lord answered and said to him, You wicked and slothful servant, …
Romans 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Hebrews 6:12 That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith …
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
how
Proverbs 1:22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners …
Proverbs 24:33,34 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep…
Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. …
when
Psalm 94:8 Understand, you brutish among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
John 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out …
Ephesians 5:14 Why he said, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ …
1 Thessalonians 5:2-7 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as …
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
naughty
Proverbs 11:6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors …
Proverbs 17:4 A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear to a …
1 Samuel 17:28 And Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and …
Jeremiah 24:2,8-10 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first …
James 1:21 Why lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and …
walketh
Proverbs 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
Proverbs 2:12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks …
Proverbs 4:24 Put away from you a fraudulent mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the …
Psalm 10:3,7 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, …
Psalm 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to …
Psalm 52:2-4 The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully…
Psalm 59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: …
Psalm 73:8,9 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they …
Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? …
Acts 20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, …
1 Timothy 5:13 And with they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; …
Titus 1:10,11 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially …
James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among …
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
frowardness
Proverbs 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Proverbs 16:28-30 A fraudulent man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends…
Proverbs 21:8 The way of man is fraudulent and strange: but as for the pure, his …
he deviseth
Proverbs 6:18 An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in …
Psalm 36:4 He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is …
Isaiah 32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices …
Isaiah 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose …
Ezekiel 11:2 Then said he to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, …
Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …
soweth or casteth forth
Proverbs 6:19 A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers.
Proverbs 16:28 A fraudulent man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends.
Proverbs 22:8 He that sows iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Proverbs 26:17-22 He that passes by, and meddles with strife belonging not to him, …
Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it …
Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brothers, mark them which cause divisions and …
Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that …
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
shall his
Proverbs 1:27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as …
Proverbs 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be …
Psalm 73:18-20 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into …
Isaiah 30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, …
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction …
he be
2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and …
Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, …
Jeremiah 19:11 And shall say to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Even so will …
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
six
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the …
Proverbs 30:18,21,24,29 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yes, four which …
Amos 1:3,6,9,11 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for …
Amos 2:1,4,6 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, …
an
Proverbs 3:32 For the fraudulent is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is …
Proverbs 11:1,20 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight…
Proverbs 15:8,9 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the …
Proverbs 17:15 He that justifies the wicked, and he that comdemns the just, even …
Proverbs 20:10,23 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination …
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or …
Deuteronomy 23:18 You shall not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into …
Deuteronomy 24:4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to …
Deuteronomy 25:16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an …
Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, …
unto him
Psalm 11:5 The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence …
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
a proud look
Proverbs 30:13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids …
Psalm 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after …
Psalm 18:27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.
Psalm 73:6-8 Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers …
Psalm 101:5 Whoever privately slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him …
Psalm 131:1 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise …
Isaiah 2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men …
Isaiah 3:9,16 The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they …
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of …
lying
Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly …
Proverbs 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Proverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering …
Psalm 5:6 You shall destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the …
Psalm 120:2,3 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue…
Hosea 4:1,2 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has …
John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you …
Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, …
and hands
Proverbs 1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk …
Deuteronomy 27:25 Cursed be he that takes reward to slay an innocent person. And all …
2 Kings 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem …
Isaiah 1:15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: …
Isaiah 59:3-6 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; …
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
a false
Psalm 12:2,3 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips …
Psalm 19:5,9 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices …
Psalm 25:18 Look on my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Exodus 20:16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Exodus 23:1 You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked …
Deuteronomy 19:16-20 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him …
1 Kings 21:10-15 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against …
Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses …
Psalm 35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, …
Matthew 26:59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false …
Acts 6:13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak …
that soweth
Proverbs 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.
Proverbs 16:28 A fraudulent man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends.
Proverbs 22:10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yes, strife and …
Proverbs 26:20 Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, …
2 Timothy 2:23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do engender …
James 3:14-16,18 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, …
3 John 1:9,10 I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence …
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Proverbs 2:11 Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:
Proverbs 3:23,24 Then shall you walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble…
Psalm 17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept …
Psalm 43:3 O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them …
Psalm 119:9,11,24,54,97,148 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto …
Daniel 11:18-21 After this shall he turn his face to the isles, and shall take many…
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
the commandment
Psalm 19:8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment …
Psalm 119:98-100,105 You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: …
Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this …
2 Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well …
lamp
Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from where you are fallen, and repent, and do …
and reproofs
Proverbs 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Proverbs 15:31 The ear that hears the reproof of life stays among the wise.
Proverbs 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings …
Leviticus 19:17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall in any wise …
Psalm 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove …
the way
Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and happy is …
Proverbs 4:4,13 He taught me also, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: …
Proverbs 15:24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Jeremiah 21:8 And to this people you shall say, Thus said the LORD; Behold, I set …
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
lust
2 Samuel 11:2-5 And it came to pass in an evening, that David arose from off his …
Matthew 5:28 But I say to you, That whoever looks on a woman to lust after her …
James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed…
take
2 Kings 9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted …
Songs 4:9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished …
Isaiah 3:16 Moreover the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, …
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
he that
Genesis 12:18,19 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that you have done …
Leviticus 20:10 And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he …
2 Samuel 11:3,4 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not …
2 Samuel 12:9,10 Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in …
2 Samuel 16:21 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, …
Jeremiah 5:8,9 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his …
Ezekiel 22:11 And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another …
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness …
toucheth
Genesis 20:4-7 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, will you …
Genesis 26:10,11 And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? one of the …
1 Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for …
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
if
Exodus 22:1,3,4 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; …
2 Samuel 12:6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, …
Job 20:18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow …
Luke 19:8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half …
he shall give
Matthew 18:25 But for as much as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be …
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
lacketh
Proverbs 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a …
Genesis 39:9,10 There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he kept back …
Genesis 41:39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, For as much as God has showed you all …
Ecclesiastes 7:25,26 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, …
Jeremiah 5:8,21 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his …
Romans 1:22-24 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools…
understanding
Hosea 4:11,12 Prostitution and wine and new wine take away the heart…
destroyeth
Proverbs 2:18,19 For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead…
Proverbs 5:22,23 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be …
Proverbs 7:22,23 He goes after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or …
Proverbs 8:36 But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate …
Proverbs 9:16-18 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him that wants …
Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; …
Hosea 13:9 O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in me is your help.
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators …
A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
regard or accept the face of
