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Proverbs 6:1-5
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Proverbs 6:1-5
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Practical Admonitions
6 My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor,
have given your pledge for a stranger;
2 if you are snared in the utterance of your lips,[a]
caught in the words of your mouth;
3 then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into your neighbor’s power:
go, hasten,[b] and importune your neighbor.
4 Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter,[c]
like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:2 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb the words of your mouth
- Proverbs 6:3 Or humble yourself
- Proverbs 6:5 Cn: Heb hand
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 17:17
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Proverbs 17:17
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17 A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17
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Proverbs 17:17
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17 A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a time of adversity.(A)
Proverbs 24:10
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Proverbs 24:10
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10 If you faint in the day of adversity,
your strength is small.
Proverbs 24:10
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Proverbs 24:10
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Saying 25
10 If you falter in a time of trouble,
how small is your strength!(A)
Proverbs 27:10
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Proverbs 27:10
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10 Your friend, and your father’s friend, do not forsake;
and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is near
than a brother who is far away.
Proverbs 27:10
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Proverbs 27:10
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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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