Proverbs 5:10
New Living Translation
10 Strangers will consume your wealth,
and someone else will enjoy the fruit of your labor.
Proverbs 5:10
Living Bible
10 lest strangers obtain your wealth, and you become a slave of foreigners.
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Proverbs 6:1
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—
Footnotes
- 6:1 Hebrew My son.
Proverbs 6:1
Living Bible
6 Son, if you endorse a note for someone you hardly know, guaranteeing his debt, you are in serious trouble.
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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
Living Bible
15 Be sure you know a person well before you vouch for his credit! Better refuse than suffer later.
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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.
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