Proverbs 27:13
Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.
Proverbs 20:16Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.
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 →