Proverbs 6:1-8 Parallel Bible Translations

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	NLT New Living Translation	ESV English Standard Version	NIV New International Version
1	My child, if you have put up security for a friend’s debt or agreed to guarantee the debt of 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	if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said—	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	follow my advice and save yourself, for you have placed yourself at your friend’s mercy. Now swallow your pride; go and beg to have your name erased.	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 put it off; do it now! Don’t rest until you do.	Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;	Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.
5	Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net.	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	Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their 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	Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work,	Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,	It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
8	they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.	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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