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10 lest strangers feast on your wealth,
    and your labors enrich another man’s house.

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10 strangers will drain your resources,
and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.

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My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor,
    if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

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Financial Entanglements

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor[a]
or entered into an agreement with[b] a stranger,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:1 Or friend
  2. 6:1 Lit or slapped hands for

15 He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it,
    but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

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15 If someone puts up security for a stranger,
he will suffer for it,(A)
but the one who hates such agreements is protected.

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16 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger;
    and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

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16 Take his garment,
for he has put up security for a stranger;
get collateral if it is for foreigners.(A)

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