Proverbs 27:13
Good News Translation
Any people stupid enough to promise to be responsible for a stranger's debts deserve to have their own property held to guarantee payment.

New Revised Standard Version
Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.

Contemporary English Version
You deserve to lose your coat if you loan it to someone to guarantee payment for the debt of a stranger.

New American Bible
Take the garment of the one who became surety for a stranger; if for a foreign woman, exact the pledge!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.

Proverbs 6:1-4 Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words. . . .

Proverbs 20:16 Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

Proverbs 22:26,27 Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts: . . .

Exodus 22:26 If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.

Context
Do not Boast about Tomorrow
12The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses. 13Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.14He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.…
Cross References
Proverbs 6:1
Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.

Proverbs 11:15
A gracious woman shall find glory: and the strong shall have riches.

Proverbs 20:16
Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

Proverbs 27:12
The prudent man seeing evil hideth himself: little ones passing on have suffered losses.

Proverbs 27:12
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