Proverbs Chapter 6 verse 2 Holy Bible
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
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You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
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thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
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Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
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You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.
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Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Thou art snared with the words of thy month, etc.; i.e. the inevitable consequence of an inconsiderate undertaking of suretyship is that you become entangled and involved by your own premises, and hampered by self-imposed obligations. The Authorized Version rightly regards this as the conclusion. So the Vulgate. Others, however, carry on the hypothesis, and insert im, "if:" "If thou art snared," etc.; but without warrant (Zockler, Wordsworth, Plumptre). The LXX. throws the thought into the form of a proverb, as "a strong net to a man are his own words." A distinction is to be drawn between the verbs rendered "entangled" and "taken;" the former, yakosh, signifying to be taken unwarily, off one's guard; the latter, lakad, referring, as before observed (cf. Proverbs 5:22), to the being stricken with the net. They are found in the same collocation in Isaiah 8:15, "Many among them shall be snared and taken." The repetition of the phrase, "with the words of thy mouth," is not unintentional or purely rhetorical. It is made, as Delitzsch observes, to bring with greater force to the mind that the entanglements in which the surety is involved are the result of his own indiscretion.
