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.
^4 (E)Give your eyes no sleep
    and your eyelids no slumber;
⁵ save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,^{[b]
    (F)}like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

^17 (A)A friend loves at all times,
    and a brother is born for adversity.

¹⁰ Do not forsake your friend and ^(A)your father's friend,
    and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity.
^(B)Better is a neighbor who is near
    than a brother who is far away.