³ Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.

¹⁵ He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.

²² By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

¹⁴ I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

¹⁶ Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

¹²² Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride.

²⁶ Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

¹⁸ A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.

¹¹ Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

³³ There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.

³² For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

⁹ Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now.