Chiasm
Proverbs 6:1–5
Proverbs 6:1–52 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
- B 2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
- C 3-4 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
- B' 5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter,
- B 2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
- A' 5 and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.