Proverbs 27:13
Take away the garment of him who has vouched for an outsider. And take a pledge from him on behalf of foreigners.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
In Context
12The discerning man, seeing evil, hides himself. The little ones, continuing on, sustain losses.
14Whoever blesses his neighbor with a grand voice, rising in the night, shall be like one who curses.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26If you take a garment from your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him again before the setting of the sun.
Proverbs 20:16Take away the vestments of him who stands up to vouch for a stranger, and take a pledge from him instead of from outsiders.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:13
12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. This we had before, ch. xxii. 3 . Note, 1. Evil may be foreseen. Where there is temptation, it is easy to foresee that if we thrust ourselves into it there will be sin, and as easy to foresee that if we venture upon the evil of sin there will follow the evil of punishment; and, commonly, God warns before he wounds, having set watchmen over us, Jer. vi. 17 . 2. It will be well or ill with us according as we do or do… Read the whole commentary →