Proverbs Scripture Reading - Proverbs 6:1-5

Proverbs 6:1-5 English Standard Version

Practical Warnings

1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,

    have given your pledge for a stranger,

2 if you are snared in the words of your mouth,

    caught in the words of your mouth,

3 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.

4 Give your eyes no sleep

    and your eyelids no slumber;

5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,

    like a bird from the hand of the fowler.