{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_jps_pro006_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_jps_pro006_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_jps_pro006_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/pro006.htm","summary":"This is a chapter from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Proverbs, a work of biblical wisdom literature in the tradition of ancient Near Eastern instructional poetry. The passage consists of a father's moral instruction to his son, organized around several discrete warnings: against reckless financial guarantees for others, against laziness (using the ant as a model of industrious self-sufficiency), and against the \"base person\" who spreads discord through deceptive body language and perverse speech. A notable structural feature is an enumerated list of seven things God abhors, including pride, lying, violence, and sowing discord among kin. The chapter closes with an extended warning against adultery, arguing through vivid metaphor \u2014 fire in the bosom, coals underfoot \u2014 that sexual transgression is uniquely self-destructive, worse even than theft, because it incites an aggrieved husband's implacable fury that no ransom can appease. The distinctively practical, consequence-focused moral reasoning throughout frames ethics not primarily in terms of divine command but in terms of what destroys or preserves a man's life, honor, and household.","tags":["Book of Chronicles","Hebrew Bible Translation","Jewish Publication Society Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Jewish Publication Society Bible: Proverbs 6","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":589}