6 My son, if you have become a ^(A)guarantor for your neighbor,
Have struck your ^[a]hands in pledge for a stranger,

³ Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself;
Since you have come into the ^[a]hand of your neighbor,
Go, humble yourself, and badger your neighbor.

¹⁰ The soul of the wicked craves evil;
His ^(A)neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

¹⁰ Do not forsake your ^(A)friend or ^(B)your father’s friend,
And do not come to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster;
Better is one who dwells near than a brother far away.

^14 (A)He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be counted as a curse to him.