Proverbs 27:13

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Take	קַח kach-	H3947	to take (in the widest variety of applications) · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
garment	בִּ֭גְדוֹ big.do	H899	a covering · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
surety	עָ֣רַב 'A.rav	H6148	to braid · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
stranger	זָ֑ר Zar	H2114	to turn aside (especially for lodging) · adjective, masculine singular absolute
pledge	חַבְלֵֽהוּ chav.Le.hu	H2254	to wind tightly (as a rope) · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
woman	נָכְרִיָּ֣ה na.khe.ri.Yah	H5237	strange · adjective, feminine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Proverbs 20:16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Proverbs 6:1-4 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Proverbs 22:26-27 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Exodus 22:26 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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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:13

This also we had before, Pro 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 be made a beggar, but he is not honest that makes himself one. 2. It advises us to be so discreet in ordering our affairs as not to lend money to those who are manifestly wasting their estates, unless they give very good security for it. Foolish lending is injustice to our families. He does not say,…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 27:12

(Compare Pro 20:16; Pro 22:3).

John Gill on Proverbs 27:13

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. See Gill on Proverbs 20:16, where the same proverb is, and is expressed in the same words as here.

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 27:13

ערום alliterates with ערב. Take from him the garment, for he hath become surety for another, And for the sake of a strange matter put him under bonds. = Pro 20:16, vid., there. נכריּה we interpret neut. (lxx τὰ ἀλλότρια; Jerome, pro alienis), although certainly the case occurs that one becomes surety for a strange woman (Aquila, Theodotion, περὶ ξένης), by whose enticements and flatteries he is taken, and who afterwards leaves him in the lurch with the debts for which he had become security, to show her costly favour to another.

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Proverbs 27:13

This proverb repeats 20:16.

Rashi

Dictionary and topics

Suretyship — In the entire absence of commerce the law laid down no rules on the subject of suretyship; but it is evident that in the time of Solomon commercial dealings had become so multiplied that suretyship…
Surety (Guarantee) · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).