Proverbs - 27:13



13 Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 27:13.

Differing Translations

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Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for a foreign woman.
Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.
Take his garment that is become surety for another, and hold him in pledge for a strange woman.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety for a strange woman.
Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.
Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for an alien woman.
Take away the garment of him who has vouched for an outsider. And take a pledge from him on behalf of foreigners.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Take his garment - The same as Proverbs 20:16.

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. See Gill on Proverbs 20:16, where the same proverb is, and is expressed in the same words as here.

An honest man may be made a beggar, but he is not honest that makes himself one.

ערום alliterates with ערב.
Take from him the garment, for he hath become surety for another,
And for the sake of a strange matter put him under bonds.
= Proverbs 20:16, vid., there. נכריּה we interpret neut. (lxx τὰ ἀλλότρια; Jerome, pro alienis), although certainly the case occurs that one becomes surety for a strange woman (Aquila, Theodotion, περὶ ξένης), by whose enticements and flatteries he is taken, and who afterwards leaves him in the lurch with the debts for which he had become security, to show her costly favour to another.

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