Proverbs 20:16
Good News Translation
Anyone stupid enough to promise to be responsible for a stranger's debts ought 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 foreigners, exact the pledge!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

take his

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

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

Proverbs 27:13 Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.

Exodus 22:26,27 If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset. . . .

strange

Proverbs 2:16 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

Proverbs 5:3 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.

Proverbs 7:5,10 For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice, . . .

Proverbs 23:27 For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Context
Wine is a Mocker
15There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel. 16Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.17The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:26
If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.

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

Proverbs 20:15
There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.

Proverbs 20:17
The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 22:27
For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there that he should take the covering from thy bed?

Proverbs 27:13
Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.

Proverbs 20:15
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