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808 B
808 B
if … if … then
These two verses present an if-then construction.
set aside your money
Implied here is that your promise and the circumstances forced you to save up. AT: "had to save up some of your money" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)
a guarantee for your neighbor's loan
Possible meanings are 1) your neighbor may come to you to ask for a loan 2) your neighbor wants to take out a loan from someone else, but you promise to pay the lender back if your neighbor cannot.
neighbor
this same Hebrew word can also mean "friend"
you have laid a trap for yourself
AT: "you have made a trap in which you yourself are caught" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
the words of your mouth
AT: "what you said" or "what you promised to do"