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Text -- Proverbs 6:1-27 (NET)

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Admonitions and Warnings against Dangerous and Destructive Acts
6:1 My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, and have become a guarantor for a stranger, 6:2 if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken, 6:3 then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor. 6:4 Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. 6:5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler. 6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise! 6:7 It has no commander, overseer, or ruler, 6:8 yet it prepares its food in the summer; it gathers at the harvest what it will eat. 6:9 How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep? 6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax, 6:11 and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man. 6:12 A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things; 6:13 he winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, and points with his fingers; 6:14 he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times. 6:15 Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy. 6:16 There are six things that the Lord hates, even seven things that are an abomination to him: 6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 6:18 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil, 6:19 a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members. 6:20 My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother. 6:21 Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck. 6:22 When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you. 6:23 For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life, 6:24 by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman. 6:25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes; 6:26 for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life. 6:27 Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes?
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NET Notes: Pro 6:1 Heb “stranger.” The term זוּר (zur, “stranger”) probably refers to a neighbor who was not well-known. ...

NET Notes: Pro 6:2 Heb “by the words of your mouth.” The same expression occurs at the end of the following line (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB). Many English versions ...

NET Notes: Pro 6:3 Heb “be bold.” The verb רָהַב (rahav) means “to act stormily; to act boisterously; to act arrogantly.&...

NET Notes: Pro 6:4 Heb “do not give sleep to your eyes.” The point is to go to the neighbor and seek release from the agreement immediately (cf. NLT “D...

NET Notes: Pro 6:5 Heb “hand” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV). Some mss and versions have it as “trap,” which may very well represent an interpretation too.

NET Notes: Pro 6:6 The sluggard (עָצֵל, ’atsel) is the lazy or sluggish person (cf. NCV “lazy person”; NRSV, NLT “l...

NET Notes: Pro 6:7 The conjunction vav (ו) here has the classification of alternative, “or” (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 71, §433).

NET Notes: Pro 6:8 Heb “its food.”

NET Notes: Pro 6:9 The use of the two rhetorical questions is designed to rebuke the lazy person in a forceful manner. The sluggard is spending too much time sleeping.

NET Notes: Pro 6:10 The writer might in this verse be imitating the words of the sluggard who just wants to take “a little nap.” The use is ironic, for by ind...

NET Notes: Pro 6:11 The Hebrew word for “armed” is probably connected to the word for “shield” and “deliver” (s.v. גּ’...

NET Notes: Pro 6:12 Heb “walks around with a perverse mouth.” The term “mouth” is a metonymy of cause, an organ of speech put for what is said. Th...

NET Notes: Pro 6:13 The sinister sign language and gestures of the perverse individual seem to indicate any kind of look or gesture that is put on and therefore a form of...

NET Notes: Pro 6:14 The word “contention” is from the root דִּין (din); the noun means “strife, contention, quarrel.”...

NET Notes: Pro 6:15 This word is a substantive that is used here as an adverbial accusative – with suddenness, at an instant.

NET Notes: Pro 6:16 Heb “his soul.”

NET Notes: Pro 6:17 The hands are the instruments of murder (metonymy of cause), and God hates bloodshed. Gen 9:6 prohibited shedding blood because people are the image o...

NET Notes: Pro 6:18 The word “feet” is here a synecdoche, a part for the whole. Being the instruments of movement, they represent the swift and eager actions ...

NET Notes: Pro 6:19 These seven things the Lord hates. To discover what the Lord desires, one need only list the opposites: humility, truthful speech, preservation of lif...

NET Notes: Pro 6:21 The figures used here are hypocatastases (implied comparisons). There may also be an allusion to Deut 6 where the people were told to bind the law on ...

NET Notes: Pro 6:22 The Hebrew verb means “talk” in the sense of “to muse; to complain; to meditate”; cf. TEV, NLT “advise you.” Instr...

NET Notes: Pro 6:23 Heb “the way of life” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV, NLT “the way to life.” The noun “life” is a genitive following th...

NET Notes: Pro 6:24 The description of the woman as a “strange woman” and now a “loose [Heb “foreign”] woman” is within the context of...

NET Notes: Pro 6:25 Heb “her eyelids” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “eyelashes”; TEV “flirting eyes”). This term is a synecdoche of part (eyeli...

NET Notes: Pro 6:26 These two lines might be an example of synthetic parallelism, that is, “A, what’s more B.” The A-line describes the detrimental mora...

NET Notes: Pro 6:27 The second colon begins with the vav (ו) disjunctive on the noun, indicating a disjunctive clause; here it is a circumstantial clause.

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