So do this, my son, to free yourself,
    since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:
Go—to the point of exhaustion—[a]
    and give your neighbor no rest!

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Or Go and humble yourself,

10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.(A)

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You have not given me into the hands(A) of the enemy
    but have set my feet in a spacious place.(B)

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12 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord(A) his God and did not humble(B) himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke the word of the Lord.

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Then the prophet Shemaiah(A) came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon(B) you to Shishak.’”

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14 David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy(A) is great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”

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So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble(A) yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

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