Proverbs 6:1–5

Proverbs 6:1–5 (Listen)

Practical Warnings

6   My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
    have given your pledge for a stranger,
2   if you are snared in the words of your mouth,
    caught in the words of your mouth,
3   then do this, my son, and save yourself,
    for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
    go, hasten,Or humble yourself">1 and plead urgently with your neighbor.
4   Give your eyes no sleep
    and your eyelids no slumber;
5   save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,Hebrew lacks of the hunter">2
    like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Footnotes

[2] 6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter