13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, …
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. …
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13)This also we had before, Prov. 20:16. 1. It shows who those are that are hastening to poverty, those that have so little consideration as to be bound for every body that will ask them and those that are given to women. Such as these will take up money as far as ever their credit will go, but they will certainly cheat their creditors at last, nay, they are cheating them all along. An honest man may…
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