10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
    and your (A)labors go to the house of a foreigner,

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Practical Warnings

My son, if you have put up (A)security for your neighbor,
    have (B)given your pledge for a stranger,

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15 (A)Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm,
    but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:16 Or for an adulteress (compare 27:13)

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