Proverbs 6:1-11 ▼

1 My sonne if thou be suretie for thy neyghbour, and hast fastened thyne hande for another man:

2 Thou art bounde with thine owne wordes, and taken with thine owne speach.

3 Therfore my sonne do this, and thou shalt be discharged: When thou art come into thy neyghbours daunger, go thy wayes then soone, humble thy selfe, and with thy frendes intreate thy creditour.

4 Let not thyne eyes sleepe, nor thyne eye liddes slumber.

5 Saue thy self as a Doe from the hand of the hunter and as a byrde from the hande of the fouler.

6 Go to the emmet thou sluggarde, consider her wayes, and learne to be wyse:

7 She hath no guyde, nor ouerseer, nor ruler,

8 Yet in the sommer she prouideth her meate, and gathereth her foode together in the haruest.

9 Howe long wylt thou sleepe thou sluggishe man? When wylt thou aryse out of thy sleepe?

10 Yea, sleepe on still a litle, slumber a litle, folde thyne handes together yet a litle that thou mayest sleepe:

11 So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie like a weaponed man.