ECB(i)
1 My son, if you pledge for your friend, clap your palm with a stranger,
2 snare yourself by the sayings of your mouth, capture yourself by the sayings of your mouth;
3 work this now, my son, and deliver yourself: when you come to the palm of your friend go, prostrate and encourage your friend;
4 neither give sleep to your eyes nor drowsiness to your eyelids;
5 deliver yourself as a gazelle from the hand - as a bird from the hand of the snarer.
6 Go to the ant, you sloth; see her ways and enwisen:
7 who, having no commander, officer, or sovereign,
8 prepares her bread in the summer and harvests her food in the harvest.
9 Until when lie you down, O sloth? When rise you from your sleep?
10 A little sleep; a little drowsiness; a little clasping of the hands to lie down:
11 thus comes your poverty - as one who walks and your lack - as a man with buckler.
12 A human Beli Yaal - a man of mischief walks with a perverted mouth;
13 he blinks with his eyes; he utters with his feet; he points with his fingers:
14 perversion is in his heart; he inscribes evil at all times; he sends contention:
15 so his calamity comes suddenly; in a blink - broken without healing.
16 These six Yah Veh hates; yes, seven are an abhorrence to his soul;
17 a lofty eye; a false tongue; and hands pouring innocent blood;
18 a heart inscribing mischievous fabrications; feet hastening to run to evil;
19 a false witness breathing lies; - spreading contention among brothers.
20 My son, guard the misvah of your father and abandon not the torah of your mother:
21 bind them continually on your heart and fasten them about your throat.
22 in going, it leads you; in lying down, it guards you; and in wakening, it meditates with you.
23 For the misvah is a lamp; and the torah a light; and reproofs of discipline, the way of life
24 to guard you from the evil woman: from the tongue of a stranger who smoothes it over.
25 Neither desire her beauty in your heart; nor be overtaken by her eyelids:
26 for a woman whores for a round of bread; and a woman of a man hunts for the esteemed soul.
27 Takes a man fire in his bosom and not burn his clothes?
28 - a man go on coals and not blister his feet?
29 Thus he who goes in to the woman of his friend; whoever touches her is not exonerated.
30 Despise not a thief if he steals to fill his soul when he famishes;
31 and being found out, he shalams sevenfold; he gives all the wealth of his house.
32 He who adulterizes with a woman, lacks heart; he who thus works ruins his own soul:
33 he finds plague and abasement; and his reproach wipes not away.
34 For jealousy is the fury of the mighty; and he spares not in the day of avengement;
35 he neither lifts the face of any koper/atonement; nor wills he though you abound bribes.