Practical Warnings
My son, if you have become a aguarantor for your neighbor,
Have struck your 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 hand of your neighbor,
Go, humble yourself, and badger your neighbor.
4 Give no asleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids;
5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand
And like a abird from the hand of the fowler.