Proverbs 20:16

New Century Version

Take the coat of someone who promises to pay a stranger’s debts, and keep it until he pays what the stranger owes.

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Whoever guarantees to pay somebody else’s loan will suffer. It is safer to avoid such promises.

It will save you from the unfaithful wife who tries to lead you into adultery with pleasing words.

There is gold and plenty of rubies, but only a few people speak with knowledge.

Stolen food may taste sweet at first, but later it will feel like a mouth full of gravel.

A prostitute is as dangerous as a deep pit, and an unfaithful wife is like a narrow well.

Take the coat of someone who promises to pay a stranger’s loan, and keep it until he pays what the stranger owes.

The words of another man’s wife may seem sweet as honey; they may be as smooth as olive oil.

My child, be careful about giving a guarantee for somebody else’s loan, about promising to pay what someone else owes.

Then the woman approached him, dressed like a prostitute and planning to trick him.

Wisdom and understanding will keep you away from adultery, away from the unfaithful wife and her pleasing words.