Proverbs 6:1-5

The chiastic structure of Proverbs 6:1-5

6:1 My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger;
	2 if you are snared in the utterance of your lips, caught in the words of your mouth;
		3 then do this, my son, and save yourself,
			for you have come into your neighbor's power:
		go, hasten, and importune your neighbor.
	4 Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.