Proverbs 6:1-5
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—
2 if you have trapped yourself by your agreement
and are caught by what you said—
3 follow my advice and save yourself,
for you have placed yourself at your friend’s mercy.
Now swallow your pride;
go and beg to have your name erased.
4 Don’t put it off; do it now!
Don’t rest until you do.
5 Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter,
like a bird fleeing from a net.
Footnotes
- 6:1 Hebrew My son.
Proverbs 6:1-5
English Standard Version
Practical Warnings
6 My son, if you have put up (A)security for your neighbor,
have (B)given your pledge for a stranger,
2 if you are (C)snared in the words of your mouth,
caught in the words of your mouth,
3 then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
go, hasten,[a] and (D)plead urgently with your neighbor.
4 (E)Give your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,[b]
(F)like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:3 Or humble yourself
- Proverbs 6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter
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 11:15
English Standard Version
15 (A)Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm,
but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.
Proverbs 17:18
New Living Translation
18 It’s poor judgment to guarantee another person’s debt
or put up security for a friend.
Proverbs 17:18
English Standard Version
18 One who lacks sense gives a pledge
and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.
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.
Proverbs 20:16
English Standard Version
16 (A)Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger,
and (B)hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 20:16 Or for an adulteress (compare 27:13)
Proverbs 22:7
New Living Translation
7 Just as the rich rule the poor,
so the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7
English Standard Version
7 (A)The rich rules over the poor,
and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Proverbs 22:26-27
New Living Translation
26 Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt
or put up security for someone else.
27 If you can’t pay it,
even your bed will be snatched from under you.
Proverbs 22:26-27
English Standard Version
26 Be not one of those who (A)give pledges,
who put up security for debts.
27 If you have nothing with which to pay,
why should (B)your bed be taken from under you?
Proverbs 27:13
New Living Translation
13 Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt.
Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.[a]
Proverbs 27:13
English Standard Version
13 (A)Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger,
and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 27:13 Hebrew a foreign woman; a slight emendation yields (compare Vulgate; see also 20:16) foreigners
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