Proverbs 6:1-8 Parallel Bible Translations

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	LAMSA Lamsa Bible	ESV English Standard Version	NIV New International Version
1	MY son, if you have become surety for your friend, if you have obligated yourself to a stranger,	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	Then you are snared with the words of your mouth, you are caught with the words of your lips.	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 this now, my son, and deliver yourself because, for the sake of your friend, you have fallen into the hands of your enemies; go, therefore, and stir up your friend for whom you have become surety to meet his obligation.	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	You shall not give sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eyelids.	Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;	Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.
5	Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the snare, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.	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	Be like the ant, consider her ways, and be 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	Though having no harvest and no ruler over her, neither any one to guide her,	Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,	It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
8	She provides her bread in the summer and gathers her food in the harvest.	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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