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!

¹³ Take the coat of anyone who puts up security for a stranger;
    hold it in pledge if he cosigns for an immoral woman.