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Proverbs 6:2

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

Read it in 5 translations

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

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

You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

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

2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.