Proverbs 27:13 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 27:13

Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

BSB

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ASV

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for a foreign woman.

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
קַח־	kach-	take	H3947 →
בִּ֭גְדוֹ	big.do	garment his	H899 →
כִּי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
עָ֣רַב	'A.rav	he stands surety for	H6148 →
זָ֑ר	Zar	a stranger	H2114 →
וּבְעַ֖ד	u.ve.'Ad	and for	H1157 →
נָכְרִיָּ֣ה	na.khe.ri.Yah	a foreign [woman]	H5237 →
חַבְלֵֽהוּ׃	chav.Le.hu	hold in pledge it	H2254 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 22:26
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
leads to
- Proverbs 20:16
  Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
- Amos 2:8
  They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
- Deuteronomy 24:6
  Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
- Job 24:3
  They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
Through
Proverbs 20:16
Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
leads to
- Exodus 22:26–27
  If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
- Proverbs 22:26–27
  Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
- Proverbs 11:15
  He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
- Proverbs 23:27
  For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

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Where the connections lead

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