13 (A)Take his garment when he becomes a guarantor for a stranger;
And for a foreign woman seize a pledge from him.

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13 Take the coat of anyone who puts up security for a stranger;
    hold it in pledge if he cosigns for an immoral woman.

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18 One who tends the (A)fig tree will eat its fruit,
And one who (B)cares for his master will be honored.

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18 Whoever nurtures the fig tree will eat its fruit,
    and whoever obeys[a] his master will be honored.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:18 Lit. guards

20 [a](A)Sheol and [b]Abaddon are (B)never satisfied,
Nor are the (C)eyes of a person ever satisfied.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:20 I.e., The netherworld
  2. Proverbs 27:20 I.e., the place of destruction

20 Sheol[a] and Abaddon[b] are never satiated,
    and neither are human eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:20 I.e. the realm of the dead
  2. Proverbs 27:20 I.e. the realm of destruction in the afterlife