Proverbs 6:2 meaning and explanation

if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,

Proverbs 6:2, Berean Standard Bible

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In this opening address a father warns his son, likely a young man entering adult life, about the danger of rashly promising to guarantee another person's debt. Verse 2 pictures the son already caught: his own spoken words have become the trap, the way a snare closes on a bird.

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