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1 My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor, if you have agreed to a deal with a stranger, 2 trapped by your own words, and caught by your own words, 3 then do this, my son, and deliver yourself, because you have come under your neighbor's control. Go, humble yourself! Plead passionately with your neighbor! 4 Don't allow yourself to sleep or even to close your eyes. 5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hunter's hand, or like a bird from a fowler's hand. 6 Go to the ant, you lazy man! Observe its ways and become wise. 7 It has no commander, officer, or ruler, 8 but prepares its provisions in the summer and gathers its food in the harvest. Proverbs 6:1-8, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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