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1 My son, do not take responsibility for another man’s debt.  Have you promised to repay that person’s debt if you waved your hand, promising to be responsible for someone else’s debt?
  Proverbs 6: 1

2 If you are stuck in your own words, if you are stuck in your own words.
  Proverbs 6: 2

3 So, my son, because you are stuck in someone else’s hands, do this to save yourself: go humble yourself and plead with that man.
  Proverbs 6: 3

4 Do not let your eyes sleep, do not let your eyelids twitch.
  Proverbs 6: 4

5 Deliver thyself as a roe from a hunter, as a bird from a snare.
  Proverbs 6: 5

6 Go, lazy man, to the ant, see how it behaves, and become wise.
  Proverbs 6: 6

7 The ant has no ruler, no master, and no leader.
  Proverbs 6: 7

8 Nevertheless, it gathers its food in the summer, and gathers its food in the harvest.
  Proverbs 6: 8

9 Lazy people, how long will you stay here?  When will you wake up from your sleep?
  Proverbs 6: 9

10 A little sleep, a little nap, a little rest for your hands,
  Proverbs 6:10

11 And before you know it, you will become poor, as if a robber had stolen everything you had.
  Proverbs 6:11

12 An ungodly man, a wicked man, whose talk is vain.
  Proverbs 6:12

13 Who will make secret gestures by blinking his eyes, slipping his feet and pointing with his fingers.
  Proverbs 6:13

14 One who is always plotting evil in his heart and one who is always arguing.
  Proverbs 6:14

15 But then there will be a sudden calamity.  In the twinkling of an eye he will perish without any way of return.
  Proverbs 6:15

16 The Lord hates these six things, and these seven things are detestable to him.
  Proverbs 6:16

17 Arrogant eyes, abominable tongues, hands that kill the innocent.
  Proverbs 6:17

18 The heart that deviseth wicked things, the feet that run to do evil.
  Proverbs 6:18

19 A false witness that always tells lies, and a man who argues between two brothers.
  Proverbs 6:19