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- My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, Have given a pledge for a stranger,
- If you have been snared with the words of your mouth, Have been caught with the words of your mouth,
- Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself; Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor, Go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor.
- Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
- Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter's hand And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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- My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
- Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
- Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
- Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
- Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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- Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise,
- Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler,
- Prepares her food in the summer And gathers her provision in the harvest.
- How long will you lie down, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
- "A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest"--
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- Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
- Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
- Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
- How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
- Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
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- Your poverty will come in like a vagabond And your need like an armed man.
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- So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
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