if you are (A)snared in the words of your mouth,
    caught in the words of your mouth,
then do this, my son, and save yourself,
    for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
    go, hasten,[a] and (B)plead urgently with your neighbor.
(C)Give your eyes no sleep
    and your eyelids no slumber;
save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,[b]
    (D)like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

(E)Go to (F)the ant, O (G)sluggard;
    consider her ways, and (H)be wise.
(I)Without having any chief,
    (J)officer, or ruler,
she prepares her bread (K)in summer
    and (L)gathers her food in harvest.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Or humble yourself
  2. Proverbs 6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter

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