Proverbs 5:10
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10 and strangers take their fill of your wealth,
and your labors go to the house of an alien,
Proverbs 5:10
New Living Translation
10 Strangers will consume your wealth,
and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
Proverbs 6:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Practical Admonitions
6 My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor,
if you have bound yourself to another,[a](A)
Footnotes
- 6.1 Or a stranger
Proverbs 6:1
New Living Translation
Lessons for Daily Life
6 My child,[a] if you have put up security for a friend’s debt
or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger—
Footnotes
- 6:1 Hebrew My son.
Proverbs 11:15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 To guarantee loans for a stranger brings trouble,
but there is safety in refusing to do so.
Proverbs 11:15
New Living Translation
15 There’s danger in putting up security for a stranger’s debt;
it’s safer not to guarantee another person’s debt.
Proverbs 20:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger;
seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.
Proverbs 20:16
New Living Translation
16 Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt.
Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.[a]
Footnotes
- 20:16 An alternate reading in the Masoretic Text is for a promiscuous woman.
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