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Proverbs 6:1-3
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Proverbs 6:1-3
New Living Translation
Lessons for Daily Life
6 My child,[a] if you have put up security for a friend’s debt
or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger—
2 if you have trapped yourself by your agreement
and are caught by what you said—
3 follow my advice and save yourself,
for you have placed yourself at your friend’s mercy.
Now swallow your pride;
go and beg to have your name erased.
Footnotes
- 6:1 Hebrew My son.
Proverbs 6:1-3
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Proverbs 6:1-3
New International Version
Warnings Against Folly
6 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,
2 you have been trapped by what you said,
ensnared by the words of your mouth.
3 So do this, my son, to free yourself,
since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:
Go—to the point of exhaustion—[a]
and give your neighbor no rest!
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:3 Or Go and humble yourself,
Proverbs 6:1-3
King James Version
Proverbs 6:1-3
King James Version
6 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
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Proverbs 17:18
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Proverbs 17:18
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18 It’s poor judgment to guarantee another person’s debt
or put up security for a friend.
Proverbs 17:18
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Proverbs 17:18
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18 One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge
and puts up security for a neighbor.(A)
Proverbs 17:18
King James Version
Proverbs 17:18
King James Version
18 A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
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Proverbs 20:16
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Proverbs 20:16
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16 Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt.
Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.[a]
Footnotes
- 20:16 An alternate reading in the Masoretic Text is for a promiscuous woman.
Proverbs 20:16
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Proverbs 20:16
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Proverbs 20:16
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Proverbs 20:16
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16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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Proverbs 22:7
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Proverbs 22:7
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7 Just as the rich rule the poor,
so the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7
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Proverbs 22:7
New International Version
7 The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7
King James Version
Proverbs 22:7
King James Version
7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
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Proverbs 27:13
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Proverbs 27:13
New Living Translation
13 Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt.
Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.[a]
Proverbs 27:13
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Proverbs 27:13
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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)
Proverbs 27:13
King James Version
Proverbs 27:13
King James Version
13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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Proverbs 22:26-27
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Proverbs 22:26-27
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26 Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt
or put up security for someone else.
27 If you can’t pay it,
even your bed will be snatched from under you.
Proverbs 22:26-27
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Proverbs 22:26-27
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Saying 4
Proverbs 22:26-27
King James Version
Proverbs 22:26-27
King James Version
26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
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