◄ Proverbs 6:1 {2} ►
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Good News Translation
My child, have you promised to be responsible for someone else's debts?

New Revised Standard Version
My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to another,

Contemporary English Version
My child, suppose you agree to pay the debt of someone, who cannot repay a loan.

New American Bible
My son, if you have become surety to your neighbor, given your hand in pledge to another,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.

Context
Warnings Against Foolishness
1Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.2Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:…
Cross References
Proverbs 6:2
Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:

Proverbs 11:15
A gracious woman shall find glory: and the strong shall have riches.

Proverbs 17:18
A foolish man will clap hands, when he is surety for his friend.

Proverbs 20:16
Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

Proverbs 22:26
Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:

Proverbs 27:13
Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.

Isaiah 2:6
For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to strange children.

Proverbs 5:23
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