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.

⁴ Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

⁵ Escape as a roe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

¹⁷ ¶ A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

¹⁰ ¶ If thou art slack in the day of tribulation, thy strength shall be reduced.

¹⁰ Do not forsake thine own friend and thy father’s friend, neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity, for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.