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Dangerous Promises
1My son, if you become surety for your friend, If you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,
2You are snared by the words of your mouth; You are taken by the words of your mouth.
3So do this, my son, and deliver yourself; For you have come into the hand of your friend: Go and humble yourself; Plead with your friend.
4Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
The Folly of Indolence
Proverbs 6:1-5 (NKJV)