10 lest strangers feast on your wealth
    and your toil enrich the house of another.(A)

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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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Warnings Against Folly

My son,(A) if you have put up security(B) for your neighbor,(C)
    if you have shaken hands in pledge(D) 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 Whoever puts up security(A) for a stranger will surely suffer,
    but whoever refuses to shake hands in pledge is safe.(B)

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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 of one who puts up security for a stranger;
    hold it in pledge(A) if it is done for an outsider.(B)

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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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