To guarantee loans for a stranger brings trouble, but there is safety in refusing to do so.
Proverbs 20:16 - New Revised Standard Version Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. American Standard Version (1901) Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for foreigners. 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 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 Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers. |
To guarantee loans for a stranger brings trouble, but there is safety in refusing to do so.
You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
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.
Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.
For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to another,
Then a woman comes toward him, decked out like a prostitute, wily of heart.
that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.