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)
you have been trapped by the words of your lips[d]
ensnared by the words of your mouth.
Do this, then, my son, and free yourself,
for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power:
Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.
Don’t give sleep to your eyes
or slumber to your eyelids.(B)
Escape like a gazelle from a hunter,[e]
like a bird from a fowler’s trap.[f](C)

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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.
  4. Proverbs 6:2 Lit mouth
  5. Proverbs 6:5 Lit hand
  6. Proverbs 6:5 Lit hand

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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18 One without sense enters an agreement[a]
and puts up security for his friend.(A)

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 17:18 Lit sense shakes hands

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.

The rich rule over the poor,(A)
and the borrower is a slave to the lender.(B)

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26 Don’t be one of those who enter agreements,[a]
who put up security for loans.(A)
27 If you have no money to pay,
even your bed will be taken from under you.(B)

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 22:26 Lit who shakes hands

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

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 27:13 A debtor’s outer garment held as collateral; Dt 24:12-13,17; Jb 22:6; Am 2:8
  2. Proverbs 27:13 Lit a foreign woman

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