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26 Be not one of those who give pledges,
    who become surety for debts.
27 If you have nothing with which to pay,
    why should your bed be taken from under you?

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13 Take a man’s garment when he has given surety for a stranger,
    and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:13 Vg and 20.16: Heb a foreign woman

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