Proverbs 6:1-5

International Standard Version

6 My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor,
if you have agreed to a deal^[a] with a stranger,
² trapped by your own words,
    and caught by your own words,
³ then do this, my son, and deliver yourself,
    because you have come under your neighbor’s control.^[b]
Go, humble yourself!
    Plead passionately with your neighbor!
⁴ Don’t allow yourself to sleep
    or even to close your eyes.
⁵ Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hunter’s hand,^[c]
    or like a bird from a fowler’s hand.