6 My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor,
    if you have bound yourself^[a] to the stranger,
² if you are snared by the sayings of your mouth,
    if you are caught by the sayings of your mouth,
³ do this, then, my child, and save yourself,
    for you have come into the palm of your neighbor’s hand:^[b]
    Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.
⁴ Do not give sleep to your eyes,
    or slumber to your eyelids.
⁵ Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand,
    or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

¹⁷ The friend loves at all times^[a],
    but a brother is born for adversity.

¹⁰ If you faint on the day of adversity,
    little is your strength.

¹⁰ As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake them,
    and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity.
    Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.