Proverbs 20:16 “Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get col…”

Proverbs 20:16

Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

World English Bible

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

American Standard Version

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for foreigners.

Geneva Bible 1599

Take his garment, that is suretie for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.

Darby Translation

Take his garment that is become surety [for] another, and hold him in pledge for strangers.

Young's Literal Translation

Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.

Bible in Basic English

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

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Cross references

“Take his”

Proverbs 27:13 Proverbs 11:15 Proverbs 22:26 Proverbs 22:27 Exodus 22:26 Exodus 22:27

Proverbs 27:13 · BSB

Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

Proverbs 11:15 · BSB

He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.

Proverbs 22:26 · BSB

Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

Proverbs 22:27 · BSB

If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

Exodus 22:26 · BSB

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,

Exodus 22:27 · BSB

because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

“a strange”

Proverbs 2:16 Proverbs 5:3 Proverbs 7:5 Proverbs 7:10 Proverbs 23:27

Proverbs 2:16 · BSB

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

Proverbs 5:3 · BSB

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 7:5 · BSB

that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

Proverbs 7:10 · BSB

Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

Proverbs 23:27 · BSB

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15There is an abundance of gold and rubies, but lips of knowledge are a rare treasure.

17Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.

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