KJV King James Version
Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Proverbs 20:16
Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
WEB World English Bible
Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
ASV American Standard Version
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for foreigners.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 20
13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
14 [It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel.
16 Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
17 Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
18 [Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
19 He that goeth about [as] a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
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Proverbs 27:13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.Exodus 22:26-27If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:Proverbs 11:15He that is surety for a stranger shall smart [for it]: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.Proverbs 22:26-27Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.Proverbs 2:16To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:Proverbs 23:27For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.Proverbs 7:10And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.Proverbs 7:5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
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