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1My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger;
2if you are snared in the utterance of your lips, caught in the words of your mouth;
3then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hasten, and importune your neighbor.
4Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
5save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Proverbs 6:1-5 (RSV)
