Good News Bible

Proverbs 6:1-7 Good News Bible (GNB)

1. Have you promised to be responsible for someone else's debts, my child?

2. Have you been caught by your own words, trapped by your own promises?

3. Well then, my child, you are in that person's power, but this is how to get out of it: hurry to him, and beg him to release you.

4. Don't let yourself go to sleep or even stop to rest.

5. Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter.

6. Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.

7. They have no leader, chief, or ruler,