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Practical Warnings

My son, if you have become a (A)guarantor for your neighbor,
Have struck your [a]hands in pledge for a stranger,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:1 Lit palms

Warnings Against Folly

My son,(A) if you have put up security(B) for your neighbor,(C)
    if you have shaken hands in pledge(D) for a stranger,

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13 (A)Take his garment when he becomes a guarantor for a stranger;
And for [a]a foreign woman seize it as a pledge.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:13 Or an adulterous, cf. 2:16

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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