Proverbs 6:1-6

¹My son, if someone has borrowed money from a friend or a stranger, and if you have promised that you will pay the money back if that person is unable to pay back the money he borrowed,

²you may be trapped by what you have agreed to do, because if the one who borrowed the money is not able to pay it back, you will have to pay it. What you have said that you will do will be like a snare to you.

³So, my son, I will tell you what you should do to escape from your difficulty, so that the moneylender does not get control over your wealth: Humbly go to your friend and plead with him to cancel the agreement!

⁴Do not wait until tomorrow; go immediately! Do not rest until you go and talk with him.

⁵Save yourself, like a deer that escapes from a deer hunter or like a bird that flees from a bird hunter.

⁶You lazy individual, learn something from watching the ants. Become wise from observing what they do.