Proverbs 6:1-5
American Standard Version
6 My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor,
If thou hast stricken [a]thy hands for a stranger;
2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth,
Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself,
Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbor:
Go, [b]humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor;
4 Give not sleep to thine eyes,
Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
5 Deliver thyself as a [c]roe from the hand of the hunter,
And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:1 Or, thy hand with a stranger
- Proverbs 6:3 Or, bestir
- Proverbs 6:5 Or, gazelle
Proverbs 6:1-5
New International Version
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 17:17
American Standard Version
17 A friend loveth at all times;
And [a]a brother is born for adversity.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 17:17 Or, is born as a brother
Proverbs 17:17
New International Version
17 A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a time of adversity.(A)
Proverbs 24:10
American Standard Version
10 If thou faint in the day of adversity,
Thy strength is small.
Proverbs 24:10
New International Version
Saying 25
10 If you falter in a time of trouble,
how small is your strength!(A)
Proverbs 27:10
American Standard Version
10 Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not;
And go not to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity:
Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs 27:10
New International Version
10 Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,
and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster(A) strikes you—
better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
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