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

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10     Otherwise, strangers will sap your strength,
        and your hard work will end up in a foreigner’s house.

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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.

Wise advice

My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor
    or shake hands in agreement with a stranger,

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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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15 Guaranteeing the debt of a stranger brings big trouble,
    but the one who refuses to shake hands will be secure.

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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.

16 Take the garment of the person who secures a loan for a stranger;
    take his pledge for a foreigner.

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