Proverbs 27:14
He who blesseth his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early for it, It shall be accounted to him as a curse.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
13Take his garment who is surety for another; Yea, take a pledge of him who is bound for a stranger.
15A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a quarrelsome wife are alike.
Cross References
Acts 12:22And thereupon the people shouted, 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 →