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Proverbs 6:13

Verse 13 of 35. The 6th of 31 chapters in Proverbs, in Poetry and Wisdom.

9How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—

11so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

12A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

13who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,

14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

16There are six things which the LORD hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

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

Read Proverbs 6

World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.