Proverbs 6 Bible Study

Day 1 · Warnings against Foolishness

Proverbs 6:1–15

¹My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger, ²if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth, ³then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor. ⁴Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. ⁵Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. ⁶Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise. ⁷Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler, ⁸it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest. ⁹How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep? ¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, ¹¹and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit. ¹²A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth, ¹³winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers. ¹⁴With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord. ¹⁵Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.

Berean Standard Bible