Proverbs 6

“My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,” The line’s distinctive content terms include friend, hand, stranger. Its relationship to verses 2 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.” Naming Thou keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make…” The line’s distinctive content terms include friend, thyself, deliver. Its relationship to verses 2 and 4 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.” Naming Give keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.” Naming Deliver keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:” The line’s distinctive content terms include consider, sluggard, ways. Its relationship to verses 5 and 7 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,” The line’s distinctive content terms include guide, overseer, ruler. Its relationship to verses 6 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.” Naming Provideth keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:” Naming Yet keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.” The line’s distinctive content terms include froward, mouth, naughty. Its relationship to verses 11 and 13 shows what work it does in this passage.

“He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;” The line’s distinctive content terms include eyes, feet, fingers. Its relationship to verses 12 and 14 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.” Naming Frowardness keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:” The number six makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,” The line’s distinctive content terms include blood, hands, innocent. Its relationship to verses 16 and 18 shows what work it does in this passage.

“An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,” The line’s distinctive content terms include deviseth, feet, heart. Its relationship to verses 17 and 19 shows what work it does in this passage.

“A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.” The line’s distinctive content terms include brethren, discord, false. Its relationship to verses 18 and 20 shows what work it does in this passage.

“My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:” The line’s distinctive content terms include commandment, father’s, forsake. Its relationship to verses 19 and 21 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.” Naming Bind keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.” The line’s distinctive content terms include woman, evil, flattery. Its relationship to verses 23 and 25 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.” Naming Lust keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious…” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;” Naming Men keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.” The line’s distinctive content terms include adultery, committeth, destroyeth. Its relationship to verses 31 and 33 shows what work it does in this passage.

“A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.” The line’s distinctive content terms include content, gifts, givest. Its relationship to verses 34 shows what work it does in this passage.