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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 his garment,[a]
for he has put up security for a stranger;
get collateral if it is for foreigners.[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:13 A debtor’s outer garment held as collateral; Dt 24:12-13,17; Jb 22:6; Am 2:8
  2. Proverbs 27:13 Lit a foreign woman

18 He who guards the (A)fig tree will eat its fruit,
And he who (B)keeps watch for his master will be honored.

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18 Whoever tends a fig tree(A) will eat its fruit,(B)
and whoever looks after his master will be honored.

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20 (A)Sheol and Abaddon are (B)never satisfied,
So the (C)eyes of man are never satisfied.

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20 Sheol and Abaddon(A) are never satisfied,(B)
and people’s eyes are never satisfied.(C)

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