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13 Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger;
    seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.[a]
14 Whoever blesses a neighbour with a loud voice,
    rising early in the morning,
    will be counted as cursing.
15 A continual dripping on a rainy day
    and a contentious wife are alike;

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Footnotes

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

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)

14 If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning,
    it will be taken as a curse.

15 A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping(B)
    of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;

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