If ever you take your neighbor's garment in pledge, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down;
Proverbs 27:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives 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 ever you take your neighbor's garment in pledge, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down;
He who gives surety for a stranger will smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure.
Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.
A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.