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10 and strangers take their fill of your wealth,
    and your labors go to the house of an alien,

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10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,[a]
    and your labors go to the house of an alien;

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:10 Or wealth

Practical Admonitions

My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor,
    if you have bound yourself to another,[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.1 Or a stranger

Practical Admonitions

My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor,
    have given your pledge for a stranger;

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15 To guarantee loans for a stranger brings trouble,
    but there is safety in refusing to do so.

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15 He who gives surety for a stranger will smart for it,
    but he who hates suretyship is secure.

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16 Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger;
    seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.

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16 Take a man’s garment when he has given surety for a stranger,
    and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.

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