6 My son, if you have become ^(A)surety for your neighbor,
Have ^[a]given a 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 importune your neighbor.

²⁹ A man of violence ^(A)entices his neighbor
And leads him in a way that is not good.

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

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

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