Verse 14
Proverbs 6:14
Young's Literal Translation
14
Frowardness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
Original Language Text
hebrew
תַּֽהְפֻּכ֨וֹת בְּ/לִבּ֗/וֹ חֹרֵ֣שׁ רָ֣ע בְּ/כָל עֵ֑ת מדנים מִדְיָנִ֥ים יְשַׁלֵּֽחַ
English Translation
He who plots evil in his heart sends out strife at all times.
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Chapter 6 Context
1
My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,
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Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,
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Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample o...
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Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,
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Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
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Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;
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Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,
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She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.
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Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?
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A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,
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And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.
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A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,
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Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,
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Frowardness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
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Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.
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These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven [are] abominations to His soul.
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Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --
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A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --
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A false witness [who] doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
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Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
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Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.
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In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast a...
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For a lamp [is] the command, And the law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,
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To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.
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For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
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Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?
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Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?
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So [is] he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
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They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,
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And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.
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He who committeth adultery [with] a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.
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A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,
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For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.
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He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multipl...
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