Proverbs 27:13

New Living Translation

¹³Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt.
Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.^[a]

27:13 As in Greek and Latin versions (see also 20:16); Hebrew reads for a promiscuous woman.

Proverbs 27:13

Living Bible

¹³The world’s poorest credit risk is the man who agrees to pay a stranger’s debts.

¹⁸As workers who tend a fig tree are allowed to eat the fruit,
so workers who protect their employer’s interests will be rewarded.

¹⁸A workman may eat from the orchard he tends; anyone should be rewarded who protects another’s interests.

²⁰Just as Death and Destruction^[a] are never satisfied,
so human desire is never satisfied.

²⁰Ambition^[a] and death are alike in this: neither is ever satisfied.

Proverbs 27:20 Ambition, literally, “A man’s eyes.” Possibly the reference is to lust.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Living Bible (TLB)