Proverbs 6:2
you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth.
In context
1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger, 2 you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth. 3 So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go—to the point of exhaustion— and give your neighbor no rest! 4 Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids. 5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare 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.
- ESV English Standard Version
— Proverbs 6:2 in the ESV
if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,