1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,

if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,

2 you have been trapped by what you said,

ensnared by the words of your mouth.

1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,

have given your pledge for a stranger,

2 if you are snared in the words of your mouth,

caught in the words of your mouth,

1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend,

If thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth,

Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

1 My child, if you have put up security for a friend’s debt

or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger—

2 if you have trapped yourself by your agreement

and are caught by what you said—

1 My son, if you become surety for your friend,

If you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,

2 You are snared by the words of your mouth;

You are taken by the words of your mouth.

1 My child, be careful about giving a guarantee for somebody else’s loan,

about promising to pay what someone else owes.

2 You might get trapped by what you say;

you might be caught by your own words.

1 My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor,

If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;

2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth,

Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

1 My son, if thou hast become surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand for a stranger, 2 thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

1 My son, 

if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor 

or pledge yourself for a stranger with a handshake, 

2 you are trapped by the words of your own mouth, 

caught by your own promise. 

1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor

or entered into an agreement with a stranger,

2 you have been trapped by the words of your lips —

ensnared by the words of your mouth.

1 My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor,

if you have bound yourself to another,

2 you are snared by the utterance of your lips,

caught by the words of your mouth.

1 My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor,

if you have bound yourself to the stranger,

2 if you are snared by the sayings of your mouth,

if you are caught by the sayings of your mouth,

1 My son, don’t put up money for what your neighbor owes.

Don’t agree to pay up for someone else.

2 Don’t be trapped by what you have said.

Don’t be caught by the words of your mouth.