Proverbs 6:2 {3}
Good News Translation
Have you been caught by your own words, trapped by your own promises?

New Revised Standard Version
you are snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth.

Contemporary English Version
Then you are trapped by your own words,

New American Bible
You have been snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:

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Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:

Psalm 12:1-3 Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David. [2] Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men. . . .

Context
Warnings Against Foolishness
1Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words. 2Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:3Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:25
Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Proverbs 6:1
Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.

Proverbs 6:3
Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.

Proverbs 6:1
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