6 My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor,
If thou hast stricken ^[a]thy hands for 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,
Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbor:
Go, ^[b]humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor;
⁴ Give not sleep to thine eyes,
Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
⁵ Deliver thyself as a ^[c]roe from the hand of the hunter,
And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.