Proverbs 6:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

Proverbs 6:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 18:7
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs 12:13
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

It is the excellency of the word of God that it teaches us not only divine wisdom for another world, but human prudence for this world, that we may order our affairs with discretion; and this is one good rule, To avoid suretiship, because by it poverty and ruin are often brought into families, which take away that comfort in relations which he had recommended in the foregoing chapter. 1. We must l…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Pr 6:1-35. After admonitions against suretyship and sloth (compare Pr 6:6-8), the character and fate of the wicked generally are set forth, and the writer (Pr 6:20-35) resumes the warnings against incontinence, pointing out its certain and terrible results. This train of thought seems to intimate the kindred of these vices. 1-2. if--The condition extends through both verses. be surety--art pledged…