Proverbs 6:1-5

¹My son, if thou become surety for thy friend, thou shalt deliver thine hand to an enemy.

²For a man's own lips become a strong snare to him, and he is caught with the lips of his own mouth.

³My son, do what I command thee, and deliver thyself; for on thy friend's account thou art come into the power of evil men: faint not, but stir up even thy friend for whom thou art become surety.

⁴Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber with thine eyelids;

⁵that thou mayest deliver thyself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.