Proverbs 27:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, And take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ [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)

¹³ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for a foreign woman.

Common English Bible

¹³ Take the garment of the person who secures a loan for a stranger; take his pledge for a foreigner.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ 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

¹³ Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.

Proverbs 27:13 Cross References

Exodus 22:26

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as guarantee, you shall restore it before the sun goes down,

Proverbs 11:15

To guarantee loans for a stranger brings trouble, but there is safety in refusing to do so.

Proverbs 20:16

Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.

Proverbs 27:12

The clever see danger and hide, but the simple go on and suffer for it.