Proverbs 27:13

If someone guarantees a stranger's debt with their cloak, be sure to take it! Make sure you have whatever is pledged to an immoral woman!

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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

12If you're sensible you see danger coming and get out of the way; but stupid people just keep going and suffer the consequences.

14If when you get up every morning you shout a loud hello to your neighbors, they will see that as a curse!

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Cross References

Exodus 22:26If you require your neighbor's cloak as security for a loan, you must return it to him by sunset,

Proverbs 20:16If someone guarantees a stranger's debt with their cloak, be sure to take it! Make sure you have whatever is pledged to foreigners!

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 →

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