Proverbs 6:1-8 ▼

1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor or entered into an agreement with a stranger,

2 you have been snared by the words of your mouth— trapped by the words from your mouth.

3 Do this, then, my son, and free yourself, for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power: Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.

4 Don’t give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

5 Escape like a gazelle from a hunter, like a bird from a hunter’s trap.

6 Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise.

7 Without leader, administrator, or ruler,

8 it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food during harvest.