6 My son, if you have put up ^(A)security for your neighbor,
    have ^(B)given your pledge for a stranger,
² if you are ^(C)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,^[a] and ^(D)plead urgently with your neighbor.

¹⁸ One who lacks sense gives a pledge
    and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.

^16 (A)Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger,
    and ^(B)hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.^[a]

^7 (A)The rich rules over the poor,
    and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

^13 (A)Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger,
    and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.^[a]

²⁶ Be not one of those who ^(A)give pledges,
    who put up security for debts.
²⁷ If you have nothing with which to pay,
    why should ^(B)your bed be taken from under you?