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Proverbs 6:1-5 (Listen)

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Practical Warnings

6 My son, if you have put up esecurity for your neighbor,

have egiven your pledge for a stranger,

2 if you are fsnared 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,1 and gplead urgently with your neighbor.

4 hGive your eyes no sleep

and your eyelids no slumber;

5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,2

ilike a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Proverbs 17:17 (Listen)

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17 kA friend loves at all times,

and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 24:10 (Listen)

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10 If you ifaint in the day of adversity,

your strength is small.

Proverbs 27:10 (Listen)

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10 Do not forsake your friend and hyour father's friend,

and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity.

iBetter is a neighbor who is near

than a brother who is far away.