If you take your neighbor’s cloak as guarantee, you shall restore it before the sun goes down,
Proverbs 27:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, And take a pledge of him for a strange woman. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [The judge tells the creditor] Take the garment of one who is security for a stranger; and hold him in pledge when he is security for foreigners. [Prov. 20:16.] American Standard Version (1901) Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for a foreign woman. Common English Bible Take the garment of the person who secures a loan for a stranger; take his pledge for a foreigner. Catholic Public Domain Version Take away the garment of him who has vouched for an outsider. And take a pledge from him on behalf of foreigners. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers. |
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as guarantee, you shall restore it before the sun goes down,
To guarantee loans for a stranger brings trouble, but there is safety in refusing to do so.
Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.