Bible Verses About Young Men

but let them be for you alone and not for strangers with you.

Let your fountain, the wife of your youth, be blessed; find joy in her

a lovely deer, a graceful fawn; let her breasts satisfy you at all times, always be infatuated with her love.

My son, why be infatuated with an unknown woman? Why embrace the body of a loose woman?

For ADONAI is watching a man's ways; he surveys all his paths.

A wicked person's own crimes will trap him, he will be held fast by the ropes of his sin.

He will die from lack of discipline; the magnitude of his folly will make him totter and fall.

My son, if you have put up security for your friend, if you committed yourself on behalf of another;

you have been snared by the words of your mouth, caught by the words of your own mouth.

Do this now, my son, and extricate yourself, since you put yourself in your friend's power: go, humble yourself, and pester your friend;

give your eyes no sleep, give your eyelids no rest;

break free, like a gazelle from the [hunter's] trap, like a bird from the grip of the fowler.

Go to the ant, you lazybones! Consider its ways, and be wise.

It has no chief, overseer or ruler;

yet it provides its food in summer and gathers its supplies at harvest-time.

Lazybones! How long will you lie there in bed? When will you get up from your sleep?

"I'll just lie here a bit, rest a little longer, just fold my hands for a little more sleep"-

and poverty comes marching in on you, scarcity hits you like an invading soldier.

A scoundrel, a vicious man, lives by crooked speech,

winking his eyes, shuffling his feet, pointing with his fingers.

With deceit in his heart, he is always plotting evil and sowing discord.

Therefore disaster suddenly overcomes him; unexpectedly, he is broken beyond repair.

There are six things ADONAI hates, seven which he detests:

a haughty look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet swift in running to do evil,