10 lest strangers feast on your wealth
    and your toil enrich the house of another.(A)

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

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Warnings Against Folly

My son,(A) if you have put up security(B) for your neighbor,(C)
    if you have shaken hands in pledge(D) for a stranger,

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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 Whoever puts up security(A) for a stranger will surely suffer,
    but whoever refuses to shake hands in pledge is safe.(B)

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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 the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger;
    hold it in pledge(A) if it is done for an outsider.(B)

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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.