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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,[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 Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit.
    He who looks after his master shall 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 Sheol[a] and Abaddon are never satisfied;
    and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

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  1. 27:20 Sheol is the place of the dead.

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

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