Proverbs 27:13

You deserve to have your property taken from you if you foolishly promise to a stranger (OR, a strange woman) that you will pay what she owes if she is unable to pay it [DOU].

Translation for Translators

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

12Those who have good sense will realize that there is something dangerous ahead, and they will hide; those who do not have good sense just keep going, and later they will suffer because of doing that.

14If you rise early in the morning and call out a greeting to your neighbor while he is still sleeping, he will consider it to be a curse, not a blessing.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:26If he gives you his cloak to guarantee that he will pay the money back, you must give the cloak back to him before the sun goes down,

Proverbs 20:16If you foolishly promise to a stranger that you will pay what he owes if he is unable to pay it [DOU], you deserve to have someone take your coat from you.

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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