6 My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor,
    if you have bound yourself to another,^[a](A)
2 you are snared by the utterance of your lips,^[b]
    caught by the words of your mouth.
³ So do this, my child, and save yourself,
    for you have come into your neighbor’s power:
    go, hurry,^[c] and plead with your neighbor.

¹⁸ It is senseless to give a pledge,
    to become surety for a neighbor.^(A)

¹⁶ Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger;
    seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.

⁷ The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is the slave of the lender.^(A)

¹³ Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger;
    seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.^[a](A)