✧1My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger, Copy✧2if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth, Copy✧3then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor. Copy✧4Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. Copy✧5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. Copy✧6Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise. Copy✧7Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler, Copy✧8it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest. Copy