Proverbs 20:16

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.

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

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

For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

Then a woman comes toward him decked out like a prostitute, with hidden intent.

that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,

You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to another,

There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips informed by knowledge are a precious jewel.

Bread gained by deceit is sweet, but afterward the mouth will be full of gravel.