Verse 34
Proverbs 6:34
Literal Standard Version
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For jealousy is the fury of a man, || And he does not spare in a day of vengeance.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּֽי קִנְאָ֥ה חֲמַת גָּ֑בֶר וְ/לֹֽא יַ֝חְמ֗וֹל בְּ/י֣וֹם נָקָֽם
English Translation
For jealousy is the fury of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
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Chapter 6 Context
1
My son! If you have been guarantor for your friend, || Have struck your hand for a stranger,
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Have been snared with sayings of your mouth, || Have been captured with sayings of your mouth,
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Do this now, my son, and be delivered, || For you have come into the hand of your friend. Go, trampl...
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Do not give sleep to your eyes, || And slumber to your 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 to the ant, O slothful one, || See her ways and be wise;
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Which has no captain, overseer, and ruler,
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She prepares her bread in summer, || She has gathered her food in harvest.
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Until when, O slothful one, do you lie? When do you arise from your sleep?
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A little sleep, a little slumber, || A little clasping of the hands to rest,
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And your poverty has come as a traveler, || And your 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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Contrariness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, || He sends forth contentions.
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Therefore his calamity comes suddenly, || He is broken instantly—and no healing.
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These six has YHWH hated, || Indeed, seven are abominations to His soul:
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High eyes, || False tongues, || And hands shedding innocent blood,
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A heart devising thoughts of vanity, || Feet hastening to run to evil,
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A false witness who breathes out lies, || And one sending forth contentions between brothers.
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Keep, my son, the command of your father, || And do not leave the law of your mother.
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Bind them on your heart continually, || Tie them on your neck.
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In your going up and down, it leads you, || In your lying down, it watches over you, || And you have...
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For the command is a lamp, || And the Law a light, || And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,
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To preserve you from an evil woman, || From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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Do not desire her beauty in your heart, || And do not let her take you with her eyelids.
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For a harlot consumes to a cake of bread, || And an adulteress hunts the precious soul.
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Does a man take fire into his bosom, || And are his garments not burned?
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Does a man walk on the hot coals, || And are his feet not scorched?
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So is he who has gone in to the wife of his neighbor, || None who touches her is innocent.
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They do not despise the thief, || When he steals to fill his soul when he is hungry,
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And being found he repays sevenfold, || He gives all the substance of his house.
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He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart, || He who does it is destroying his soul.
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He finds a stroke and shame, || And his reproach is not wiped away,
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For jealousy is the fury of a man, || And he does not spare in a day of vengeance.
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He does not accept the appearance of any atonement, || Indeed, he does not consent, || Though you mu...
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