Proverbs 6:1-8 Parallel Bible Translations

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1	My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for 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	you are trapped by the words of your mouth; you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.	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, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with 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	Give no 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	Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare 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	Go to the ant, you sluggard. 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	which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,	Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,	It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
8	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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