6 My son, if you have become ^(A)surety for your neighbor,
Have ^[a]given a 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 importune 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.

¹⁷ A ^(A)friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.

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