Proverbs 6:1-8 Parallel Bible Translations

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	GWT God's Word Translation	ESV English Standard Version	NIV New International Version
1	My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor or pledge yourself for a stranger with a handshake,	My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,	My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,
2	you are trapped by the words of your own mouth, caught by your own promise.	if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,	you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth.
3	Do the following things, my son, so that you may free yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor's hands: Humble yourself, and pester your neighbor.	then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.	So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go—to the point of exhaustion— and give your neighbor no rest!
4	Don't let your eyes rest or your eyelids close.	Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;	Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.
5	Free yourself like a gazelle from the hand of a hunter and like a bird from the hand of a hunter.	save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.	Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6	Consider the ant, you lazy bum. Watch its ways, and become wise.	Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.	Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
7	Although it has no overseer, officer, or ruler,	Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,	It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
8	in summertime it stores its food supply. At harvest time it gathers its food.	she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.	yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
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