Proverbs 6:1-5

New Century Version

6 My child, be careful about giving a guarantee for somebody else’s loan,
    about promising to pay what someone else owes.
² You might get trapped by what you say;
    you might be caught by your own words.
³ My child, if you have done this and are under your neighbor’s control,
    here is how to get free.
Don’t be proud. Go to your neighbor
    and beg to be free from your promise.
⁴ Don’t go to sleep
    or even rest your eyes,
⁵ but free yourself like a deer running from a hunter,
    like a bird flying away from a trapper.