Proverbs 6:1-7

¹My son, if you become surety for your friend, you shall deliver your 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 you, and deliver yourself; for on your friend's account you are come into the power of evil men: faint not, but stir up even your friend for whom you are become surety.

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

⁵that you may deliver yourself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.

⁶Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.

⁷For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master,