Proverbs 20:16

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

Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.

Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.

If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,

to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.