6 My son, if you have become a ^(A)guarantor for your neighbor,
Have struck your ^[a]hands in pledge for a stranger,
² If you have been snared with the words of your mouth,
Have been caught with the words of your mouth,
³ Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself;
Since you have come into the ^[b]hand of your neighbor,
Go, humble yourself, and badger your neighbor.
⁴ Give no ^(B)sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids;
⁵ Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand
And like a ^(C)bird from the hand of the fowler.

¹⁰ Do not forsake your ^(A)friend or ^(B)your father’s friend,
And do not come to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster;
Better is one who dwells near than a brother far away.