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26 Don’t you be one of those who strike hands,
    of those who are collateral for debts.
27 If you don’t have means to pay,
    why should he take away your bed from under you?

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26 Do not be with those who give a pledge[a]
    by becoming[b] surety.
27 If there is nothing for you to pay,[c]
    why will he take your bed from under you?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:26 Literally “strike a hand”
  2. Proverbs 22:26 Literally “in the becomings of”
  3. Proverbs 22:27 Or “complete”

13 Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger.
    Hold it for a wayward woman!

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13 Take his garment, for he gives surety to a stranger,
    and to an adulteress[a]so take his pledge.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:13 Literally “a foreign woman”