Proverbs 6 brings more fatherly advice warning against folly such as guaranteeing others' debts, being lazy, and further counselling against adultery. Solomon recommends the ant as a hard working example to combat the sluggard. Laziness produces poverty, he says, which will come on you like a bandit! He then lists 7 things to guard against which God detests: pride, lies, violence, sowing discord, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that haste to evil, and bearing false witness. After this the writer returns as in the previous chapter to combat adultery and involvement with immoral women because a prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread! "Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched"? Therefore don't play with fire! "A man who commits adultery lacks judgement, and whoever does so destroys himself... his shame will never be wiped away!"
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