1. My son,if you guarantee a loan for your neighboror pledge yourself for a stranger with a handshake,
2. you are trapped by the words of your own mouth,caught by your own promise.
3. Do the following things, my son, so that you may free yourself,because you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:Humble yourself,and pester your neighbor.
4. Don’t let your eyes restor your eyelids close.
5. Free yourself like a gazelle from the hand of a hunterand like a bird from the hand of a hunter.
6. Consider the ant, you lazy bum.Watch its ways, and become wise.
7. Although it has no overseer, officer, or ruler,
8. in summertime it stores its food supply.At harvest time it gathers its food.
9. How long will you lie there, you lazy bum?When will you get up from your sleep?
10. “Just a little sleep,just a little slumber,just a little nap.”
11. Then your poverty will come ⌊to you⌋ like a drifter,and your need will come ⌊to you⌋ like a bandit.
12. A good-for-nothing scoundrel is a person who has a dishonest mouth.
13. He winks his eye,makes a signal with his foot,⌊and⌋ points with his fingers.
14. He devises evil all the time with a twisted mind.He spreads conflict.