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Text -- Proverbs 6:1-9 (NET)
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Admonitions and Warnings against Dangerous and Destructive Acts
6:1 My child , if you have made a pledge for your neighbor , and have become a guarantor for a stranger ,
6:2 if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered , and have been caught by the words you have spoken ,
6:3 then , my child , do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power : go , humble yourself , and appeal firmly to your neighbor .
6:4 Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids .
6:5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare , and like a bird from the trap of the fowler .
6:6 Go to the ant , you sluggard ; observe its ways and be wise !
6:7 It has no commander , overseer , or ruler ,
6:8 yet it prepares its food in the summer ; it gathers at the harvest what it will eat .
6:9 How long , you sluggard , will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep ?
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NET Notes: Pro 6:1 Heb “stranger.” The term זוּר (zur, “stranger”) probably refers to a neighbor who was not well-known. ...
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NET Notes: Pro 6:2 Heb “by the words of your mouth.” The same expression occurs at the end of the following line (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB). Many English versions ...
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NET Notes: Pro 6:3 Heb “be bold.” The verb רָהַב (rahav) means “to act stormily; to act boisterously; to act arrogantly.&...
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NET Notes: Pro 6:4 Heb “do not give sleep to your eyes.” The point is to go to the neighbor and seek release from the agreement immediately (cf. NLT “D...
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NET Notes: Pro 6:5 Heb “hand” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV). Some mss and versions have it as “trap,” which may very well represent an interpretation too.
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NET Notes: Pro 6:6 The sluggard (עָצֵל, ’atsel) is the lazy or sluggish person (cf. NCV “lazy person”; NRSV, NLT “l...
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NET Notes: Pro 6:7 The conjunction vav (ו) here has the classification of alternative, “or” (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 71, §433).
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