Proverbs 6:1-5

¹My son, suppose you have pledged to guarantee your neighbor's debt, or you have shaken hands in agreement with a stranger,

²then you've trapped yourself by what you promised, you've been caught by what you said.

³So this is what you have to do. You need to get out of it, because you've put yourself in that person's power. Go to your neighbor in all humility and ask him to release you from the commitment.

⁴Don't delay, saying that you'll sleep on it. Don't rest until you've done it.

⁵Get out of it like a gazelle escaping from a trap, like a bird from a bird-catcher's net.