16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: …
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. …
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16)Two sorts of persons are here spoken of that are ruining their own estates, and will be beggars shortly, and therefore are not to be trusted with any good security:—1. Those that will be bound for any body that will ask them, that entangle themselves in rash suretiship to oblige their idle companions; they will break at last, nay, they cannot hold out long; these waste by wholesale. 2. Those that…
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