3 Do the following things, my son, so that you may free yourself,
    because you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:
        Humble yourself,
            and pester your neighbor.
4 Don’t let your eyes rest
    or your eyelids close.
5 Free yourself like a gazelle from the hand of a hunter
    and like a bird from the hand of a hunter.

6 Consider the ant, you lazy bum.
    Watch its ways, and become wise.
7 Although it has no overseer, officer, or ruler,
8 in summertime it stores its food supply.
    At harvest time it gathers its food.

9 How long will you lie there, you lazy bum?
    When will you get up from your sleep?
10 “Just a little sleep,
    just a little slumber,
    just a little nap.”
11 Then your poverty will come to you like a drifter,
    and your need will come to you like a bandit.

12 A good-for-nothing scoundrel is a person who has a dishonest mouth.
13 He winks his eye,
    makes a signal with his foot,
        and points with his fingers.
14 He devises evil all the time with a twisted mind.
    He spreads conflict.
15 That is why disaster will come on him suddenly.
    In a moment he will be crushed beyond recovery.

16 There are six things that Yahweh hates,
    even seven that are disgusting to him:
17 arrogant eyes,
    a lying tongue,
        hands that kill innocent people,
18 a mind devising wicked plans,
    feet that are quick to do wrong,
19 a dishonest witness spitting out lies,
    and a person who spreads conflict among relatives.

25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart.
    Do not let her catch you with her eyes.
26 A prostitute’s price is only a loaf of bread,
    but a married woman hunts for your life itself.
27 Can a man carry fire in his lap
    without burning his clothes?
28 Can anyone walk on red-hot coals
    without burning his feet?
29 So it is with a man who has sex with his neighbor’s wife.
    None who touch her will escape punishment.
30 People do not despise a thief who is hungry
    when he steals to satisfy his appetite,
31 but when he is caught,
    he has to repay it seven times.
        He must give up all the possessions in his house.

32 Whoever commits adultery with a woman has no sense.
    Whoever does this destroys himself.
33 An adulterous man will find disease[a] and dishonor,
    and his disgrace will not be blotted out,
34 because jealousy arouses a husband’s fury.
    The husband will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
35 No amount of money will change his mind.
    The largest bribe will not satisfy him.