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Proverbs 27:13-15
New Catholic Bible
Proverbs 27:13-15
New Catholic Bible
13 Take the garment of anyone who becomes surety for a stranger;
demand a pledge for persons unknown[a] to you.
14 If someone blesses his neighbor at dawn with a loud voice,
it will be reckoned to him as a curse.[b]
15 A constant dripping on a rainy day
is much like a nagging wife;[c]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 27:13 See Prov 20:16 and note. Persons unknown: Vulgate reading; the Hebrew has: “a foreign woman.”
- Proverbs 27:14 Premature praise can become an affliction (see Ps 12:3).
- Proverbs 27:15 See note on Prov 19:13.
