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10 If you do, your work will satisfy strangers,
and the results of your labor will end up in another man’s house.

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10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
    and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,

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Eighth Address to a Son:
Wisdom Avoids Entanglements

My son, if you have guaranteed your neighbor’s debts,
if you have shaken hands for a stranger,

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Against Pledges

My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor,
    if you have bound yourself[a] to the stranger,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:1 Literally “palms of your hands”

15 Guaranteeing a loan for a stranger leads to trouble,
but one who hates to shake hands[a] remains secure.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 11:15 Or make a deal

15 He will suffer trouble when he loans to a stranger,
    but he who refuses a pledge is safe.

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16 Take the garment from someone who guarantees a loan for a stranger.
Hold on to it when he offers it as collateral for a foreigner.

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16 Take his garment, for he has given security to a stranger,
    and on behalf of a foreigner—take it as pledge.

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