Practical Warnings
1 My son, if you have put up See Job 17:3security for your neighbor,
have See Job 17:3given your pledge for a stranger,
2 if you are [ch. 5:22]snared in the words of your mouth,
caught in the words of your mouth,
3 then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
go, hasten,6:3 Or humble yourself and [Luke 11:8;18:5]plead urgently with your neighbor.
4 ch. 20:13;Ps. 132:4Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter
See Ps. 91:3like a bird from the hand of the fowler.