Proverbs 27:14
Whoever 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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In Context
13Take his garment when a stranger has been guarantor, || And pledge it for a strange woman.
15A continual dropping in a day of rain, || And a woman of contentions are alike,
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:2and Absalom has risen early, and stood by the side of the way of the gate, and it comes to pass, every man who has a pleading to come to the king for judgment, that Absalom calls to him and says, “Of what city [are] you?” And he says, “Your servant [is] of one of the tribes of Israel.”
2 Samuel 17:7And Hushai says to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has counseled [is] not good at this time.”
1 Kings 22:13And the messenger who has gone to call Micaiah has spoken to him, saying, “Now behold, the words of the prophets, with one mouth, [are] good toward the king; please let your word be as the word of one of them—and you have spoken good.”
Acts 12:22and the populace were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:14
13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. This also we had before, ch. xx. 16 . 1. It shows who those are that are hastening to poverty, those that have so little consideration as to be bound for every body that will ask them and those that are given to women. Such as these will take up money as far as ever their credit will go, but they will certainly cheat their creditors at last, nay, they are cheating them all along. An honest man may be made a beggar, but… Read the whole commentary →