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16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Proverbs 20:16

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Matthew Henry

(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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