Proverbs 20:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: And take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ [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.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for foreigners.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Take the garment of the person who secures a loan for a stranger; take his pledge for a foreigner.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Take away the vestments of him who stands up to vouch for a stranger, and take a pledge from him instead of from outsiders.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

Proverbs 20:16 Cross References

Proverbs 11:15

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretyship is sure.

Proverbs 2:16

to deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 20:15

There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 23:27

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Proverbs 27:13

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Proverbs 6:1

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Proverbs 7:10

And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtile of heart.

Proverbs 7:5

that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.