He will suffer trouble when he loans to a stranger, but he who refuses a pledge is safe.

Don’t be one of those who enter agreements,who put up security for loans.

loans with usury, and exacts interest; will he live? He certainly will not! He has done all these detestable practices. He will certainly die, and his guilt will be his own fault."

“Will not all of these take up a taunt-song against him,Even mockery and insinuations against himAnd say, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his—For how long—And makes himself rich with loans?’