Bible verse

Proverbs 6:1

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

Proverbs 6:1 · BSB

Proverbs 6:1 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 6.

1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

2 if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,

3 then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.

4 Allow no sleep to your eyes or 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.

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Proverbs 6:1 in other translations

KJV

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

ASV

My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;

ERV

My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbour, if thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger,

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