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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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- 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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- Your poverty will come in like a vagabond And your need like an armed man.
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