Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for foreigners.
WEB
Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
YLT
Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.
DBT
Take his garment that is become surety [for] another, and hold him in pledge for strangers.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.