Proverbs 6:1-5 ▼

1 My son! If you have been guarantor for your friend, || Have struck your hand for a stranger,

2 Have been snared with sayings of your mouth, || Have been captured with sayings of your mouth,

3 Do this now, my son, and be delivered, || For you have come into the hand of your friend. Go, trample on yourself, and strengthen your friend,

4 Do not give sleep to your eyes, || And slumber to your eyelids,

5 Be delivered as a roe from the hand, || And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.