Proverbs 6:1–5

Proverbs 6:1–5 (Listen) Practical Warnings

6 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
have given your pledge for a stranger,
2 if you are snared in the words of your mouth,
caught in the words of your mouth,
3 then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
go, hasten,1 and plead urgently with your neighbor.
4 Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,2
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Footnotes [1] 6:3 Or humble yourself

[2] 6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter

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