10 strangers will drain your resources,
and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.

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10 Strangers will consume your wealth,
    and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.

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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,[c](A)

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 6:1 Or friend
  2. Proverbs 6:1 Lit or shaken hands for or with
  3. Proverbs 6:1 The Hb word for stranger can refer to a foreigner, an Israelite outside one’s family, or simply to another person.

Lessons for Daily Life

My child,[a] if you have put up security for a friend’s debt
    or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger—

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Notas al pie

  1. 6:1 Hebrew My son.

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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15 There’s danger in putting up security for a stranger’s debt;
    it’s safer not to guarantee another person’s debt.

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

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 20:16 A debtor’s outer garment was held as collateral.

16 Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt.
    Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.[a]

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Notas al pie

  1. 20:16 An alternate reading in the Masoretic Text is for a promiscuous woman.