13 Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger;
    hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.(A)

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13 (A)Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger,
    and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:13 Hebrew a foreign woman; a slight emendation yields (compare Vulgate; see also 20:16) foreigners

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

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18 The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit,(A)
    and whoever protects their master will be honored.(B)

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18 (A)Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
    and he who (B)guards his master will be honored.

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18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

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20 Death and Destruction[a] are never satisfied,(A)
    and neither are human eyes.(B)

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  1. Proverbs 27:20 Hebrew Abaddon

20 (A)Sheol and Abaddon are (B)never satisfied,
    and (C)never satisfied are the eyes of man.

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20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

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