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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 lest strangers obtain your wealth, and you become a slave of foreigners.

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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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Footnotes

  1. 6:1 Hebrew My son.

Son, if you endorse a note for someone you hardly know, guaranteeing his debt, you are in serious trouble.

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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 Be sure you know a person well before you vouch for his credit! Better refuse than suffer later.

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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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Footnotes

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

16 It is risky to make loans to strangers!

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