Proverbs 6:1-5
Modern English Version
Warning Against Pledges
6 My son, if you put up a security for your friend,
if you have shaken hands with a stranger,
2 you are snared with the words of your mouth;
you are taken with the words of your mouth.
3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself;
when you have come into the hand of your friend,
go and humble yourself;
plead with your friend.
4 Give no sleep to your eyes,
nor slumber to your eyelids.
5 Deliver yourself as a doe from the hand of the hunter,
and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Proverbs 17:17
Modern English Version
17 A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 24:10
Modern English Version
Saying Twenty-Five
10 If you faint in the day of adversity,
your strength is small.
Proverbs 27:10
Modern English Version
10 Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
nor go into your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
for better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far off.
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