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Chapter 6: It opens with a warning about getting into trouble
by becoming surety for a neighbor or giving a pledge for a
stranger.  The pledge might bring a risk of being reduced to
abject poverty or even to slavery especially if there is a
bargain with a foreigner. So one should not lightly risk
irreparable harm. If one has done that,he should waste no time
in getting a release from the arrangement.

Verses 16-19 use the numerical form. In the first half
ot the saying we see six things the Lord hates.To say the same
thing in the next line, with different words, requires the use
of the next higher number,seven.

Then the warning against an evil woman is repeated here.
She has a smooth tongue and alluring eyelashes. There is a
risk of one's life in this.For jealousy will make her husband
furious if he finds out,and he will not spare in taking
revenge,he will not take money or goods as compensation for
that sin. He wants to kill the offender.