Proverbs 27:13

Take his garment when a stranger has been guarantor, || And pledge it for a strange woman.

Literal Standard 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 prudent has seen the evil, he is hidden, || The simple have passed on, they are punished.

14Whoever is greeting his friend with a loud voice, || Rising early in the morning, || It is reckoned a light thing to him.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:26if you take the garment of your neighbor in pledge at all, you return it to him during the going in of the sun:

Proverbs 20:16When a stranger has been guarantor, take his garment, || And pledge it 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 →

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