6 ¶ My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

² thou art snared with the words of thy mouth; thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

³ Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, for thou hast fallen into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

¹⁸ ¶ A man void of understanding strikes hands and becomes surety in the presence of his friend.

¹⁶ ¶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him that is surety for a strange woman.

⁷ ¶ The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

¹³ ¶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger and take a pledge of him that is surety for a strange woman.

²⁶ ¶ Be not thou one of them that strike hands or of them that are sureties for debts.

²⁷ If thou hast nothing to pay, why should they take away thy bed from under thee?