Proverbs 6:3 {4}
Good News Translation
Well then, my child, you are in that person's power, but this is how to get out of it: hurry to him, and beg him to release you.

New Revised Standard Version
So do this, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor’s power: go, hurry, and plead with your neighbor.

Contemporary English Version
and you are now in the power of someone else. Here is what you should do: Go and beg for permission to call off the agreement.

New American Bible
So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: Go, hurry, rouse your neighbor!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.

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2 Samuel 24:14 And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many) than into the hands of men.

2 Chronicles 12:5 And Semeias the prophet came to Roboam, and to the princes of Juda, that were gathered together in Jerusalem, fleeing from Sesac, and he said to them: Thus saith the Lord: You have left me, and I have left you in the hand of Sesac.

Psalm 31:8 And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

go

Exodus 10:3 Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.

2 Chronicles 36:12 And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God, and did not reverence the face of Jeremias the prophet speaking to him from the mouth of the Lord.

James 4:10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord: and he will exalt you.

and make sure thy friend

Context
Warnings Against Foolishness
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: 3Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.4Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.…
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 6:4
Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Proverbs 6:2
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