Proverbs Chapter 6

Against guaranty, idleness and wickedness

6:1 My son, if you have been a guarantor for your friend, if you have given your handshake for a stranger,
6:2 you have been trapped with the words of your mouth, you are caught by the words of your mouth.
6:3 Do this now, my son, and save yourselfוְהִנָּצֵל‎
Transliteration: vᵊhinnāṣēl – to snatch away, deliver, rescue, save, strip, plunder – For more info click here, because you have put yourself in your friend’s hand; go, humble yourself [before him], and appease your friend.
6:4 Don’t give sleep to your eyes, or rest to your eyelids.
6:5 Be savedהִנָּצֵל‎
Transliteration: hinnāṣēl – to snatch away, deliver, rescue, save, strip, plunder – For more info click here like a deer from the [hunter’s] hand, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6:6 Go to the ant, you lazy one; consider her waysדְרָכֶיהָ
Transliteration: ḏᵊrāḵêhā – her/its ways, her/its roads, her/its distances, her/its journeys, her/its manners, her/its paths, her/its directions, toward her/its – For more info click here, and be wise:
6:7 Without having any chief
or officer or ruler,
6:8 she provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest time.
6:9 How long will you lay there, O lazy one? When will you get up out from your sleep?
6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber*With a minimum of sleep and relaxation, your periods of poverty and want will soon pass, like a traveler or a soldier girded for battle, who spends but a night and then continues on his way Vs. 10 -11 (Ralbag). – From the Artscroll English Tanach, a little folding of the hands to lay down:
6:11 and your poverty will come like a traveler, and your lacking like an armed man.
6:12 A worthless manאָדָם‎
Transliteration: ‘āḏām Pronunciation: aw-dam’ man, human being
man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here, is a wickedאָוֶן‎
Transliteration: ‘āven -ffrom an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol:—affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness) – For more info click here man, goes out with a crooked mouth.
6:13 he winks with his eyes, he shuffles with his feet, he points with his fingers;
6:14 Perversity, is in his heart, he plots evilרָע‎
Transliteration: rāʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here all the time; he sows strife.
6:15 So his undoing will come suddenly; he will be broken in an instant without healing.
6:16 These six things YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here hates: but, the seventh is the abomination of his soulנַפְשׁוֹ
Transliteration: nap̄šô – Meaning: his soul, himself, his life, his creature, his person, his appetite, his mind, his living being, his desire, his emotion, his passion For more info click here:
6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
6:18 A heart that plans wickedאָוֶן‎
Transliteration: ‘āven -ffrom an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol:—affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness) – For more info click here thoughts, feet that hurry to run to evilלָרָעָה‎
Transliteration: lārāʿâ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here,
6:19 A false witness that breathes lies, and one who stirs up strife between brothers.

Blessings of obedience

6:20 My son, guard your father’s commandmentמִצְוַת
Transliteration: miṣvaṯ Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Singular Absolute Meaning: a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept. For more info click here, and don’t forsake the teachingתּוֹרַת‎
Transliteration; tôraṯ – Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Singular Absolute – “Instructions”, “Teachings” or “Laws”) The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot. of your mother:
6:21 Tie them to your heart always, and tie them around your neck.
6:22 When you walk, it will guide you; when you lay down, it will guard you; and when you wake up, it will talk with you.
6:23 Because a commandmentמִצְוָה
Transliteration: miṣvâ Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Singular Absolute Meaning: a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept. For more info click here is a lamp; and the Torahוְתוֹרָה‎
Transliteration: vᵊṯôrâ; law, teaching, direction, instruction – The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot. For more info click here. is light; and reproving discipline is the wayוְדֶרֶךְ
Transliteration: vᵊḏereḵ – and | the way -, and the road, and the distance, and the journey, and the manner, and the path, and the direction, and toward – For more info click here of life:
6:24 To guard you from an evilרָע‎
Transliteration: rāʿ – In the KJV is translated in the following manner: evil (442x), wickedness (59x), wicked (25x), mischief (21x), hurt (20x), bad (13x), trouble (10x), sore (9x), affliction (6x), ill (5x), adversity (4x), ill favored (3x), harm (3x), naught (3x), noisome (2x), grievous (2x), sad (2x), miscellaneous (34x) For more info click here woman, from the smoothness of the tongue of a foreign woman.
6:25 Don’t desire her beauty in your heart; and don’t let her captivate you with her eyelids.
6:26 because for the sake of a whorish woman, [one may beg] for a loaf of bread: an adulteress woman can trap a precious lifeנֶפֶשׁ
Transliteration: nep̄eš – Pronunciation:neh’-fesh feminine noun Meaning: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion For more info click here.
6:27 Can a man pile up fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
6:28 Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being burned?
6:29 So is one who goes in to his friend’s wife; whoever touches her won’t go unpunished.
6:30 A thief isn’t [overly] scorned if he steals to satisfy his appetiteנַפְשׁוֹ
Transliteration: nap̄šô – Meaning: his soul, himself, his life, his creature, his person, his appetite, his mind, his living being, his desire, his emotion, his passion For more info click here when he is hungry;
6:31 When he is found, he will pay back sevenfold; even give all the wealth of his house.
6:32 But he who commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: a destroyer of his soulנַפְשׁוֹ
Transliteration: nap̄šô – Meaning: his soul, himself, his life, his creature, his person, his appetite, his mind, his living being, his desire, his emotion, his passion For more info click here will do this.
6:33 Plague and shame will he find; and his scorn won’t be erased.
6:34 Because jealousy ignites a husband’s fury: So he won’t have pity on the day of revenge.
6:35 He won’t accept any ransom; and won’t relent, though the bribe is great.