Proverbs 6:2
if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,
In context
1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, 2 if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, 3 then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. 4 Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; 5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 6:2 in the KJV
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
- NIV New International Version
— Proverbs 6:2 in the NIV
you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth.