If you pledged yourself for another, Free your name before the debt can close. Do not give your eyelids rest; Escape like a bird from the hunter. Go to the ant, you sluggard. Watch her ways and become wise. With no captain, ruler, or overseer, She prepares her food in harvest time. A little sleep, a little folding of the hands, And poverty arrives like an armed man. A worthless person winks and signals, Planting discord with a crooked mouth. Six things God hates, and seven are detestable: Proud eyes, lying tongue, and hands that shed the innocent, A heart devising evil, feet that run to trouble, False witness, and the one who spreads division. Keep the commandment as a lamp before you. Do not let forbidden beauty capture you. A man who carries fire against his body Cannot expect his clothes to remain unburned.