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2if you have been trapped by what you said,
ensnared by the words of your mouth,

3then do this, my son, to free yourself,
since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands:
Go and humble yourself;
press your plea with your neighbor!

4Allow no sleep to your eyes,
no slumber to your eyelids.

5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

6Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!

7It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,

8yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

11and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and scarcity like an armed man.Or like a vagrant / and scarcity like a beggar

12A scoundrel and villain,
who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

13who winks with his eye,
signals with his feet
and motions with his fingers,

14who plots evil with deceit in his heart—
he always stirs up dissension.

15Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant;
he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.

16There are six things the LORD hates,
seven that are detestable to him:

17haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,

18a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,

19a false witness who pours out lies
and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.