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Proverbs 6:1-5
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Proverbs 6:1-5
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Practical Admonitions
6 My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor,
if you have bound yourself to another,[a](A)
2 you are snared by the utterance of your lips,[b]
caught by the words of your mouth.
3 So do this, my child, and save yourself,
for you have come into your neighbor’s power:
go, hurry,[c] and plead with your neighbor.
4 Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;(B)
5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter,[d]
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.(C)
Proverbs 6:1-5
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Proverbs 6:1-5
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Lessons for Daily Life
6 My child,[a] if you have put up security for a friend’s debt
or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger—
2 if you have trapped yourself by your agreement
and are caught by what you said—
3 follow my advice and save yourself,
for you have placed yourself at your friend’s mercy.
Now swallow your pride;
go and beg to have your name erased.
4 Don’t put it off; do it now!
Don’t rest until you do.
5 Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter,
like a bird fleeing from a net.
Footnotes
- 6:1 Hebrew My son.
Proverbs 6:1-5
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Proverbs 6:1-5
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Warnings Against Folly
6 My son,(A) if you have put up security(B) for your neighbor,(C)
if you have shaken hands in pledge(D) for a stranger,
2 you have been trapped by what you said,
ensnared by the words of your mouth.
3 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!
4 Allow no sleep to your eyes,
no slumber to your eyelids.(E)
5 Free yourself, like a gazelle(F) from the hand of the hunter,(G)
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.(H)
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:3 Or Go and humble yourself,
Proverbs 11:15
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Proverbs 11:15
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15 To guarantee loans for a stranger brings trouble,
but there is safety in refusing to do so.
Proverbs 11:15
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Proverbs 11:15
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15 There’s danger in putting up security for a stranger’s debt;
it’s safer not to guarantee another person’s debt.
Proverbs 11:15
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Proverbs 11:15
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Proverbs 17:18
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Proverbs 17:18
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18 It is senseless to give a pledge,
to become surety for a neighbor.(A)
Proverbs 17:18
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Proverbs 17:18
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18 It’s poor judgment to guarantee another person’s debt
or put up security for a friend.
Proverbs 17:18
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Proverbs 17:18
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18 One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge
and puts up security for a neighbor.(A)
Proverbs 20:16
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Proverbs 20:16
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16 Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger;
seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.
Proverbs 20:16
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Proverbs 20:16
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16 Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt.
Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.[a]
Footnotes
- 20:16 An alternate reading in the Masoretic Text is for a promiscuous woman.
Proverbs 20:16
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Proverbs 20:16
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Proverbs 22:26-27
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Proverbs 22:26-27
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26 Do not be one of those who give pledges,
who become surety for debts.(A)
27 If you have nothing with which to pay,
why should your bed be taken from under you?
Proverbs 22:26-27
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Proverbs 22:26-27
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26 Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt
or put up security for someone else.
27 If you can’t pay it,
even your bed will be snatched from under you.
Proverbs 22:26-27
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Proverbs 22:26-27
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