Proverbs 6:1 - 6:5

My son, if you have become a guarantor for your neighbor,

Have struck your hands in 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 badger 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.

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times,

And a brother is born for adversity.

If you are slack in the day of trouble,

Your strength is in trouble.

Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend,

And do not come to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster;

Better is one who dwells near than a brother far away.