Take collateral from the man who guarantees a stranger or entangles himself with an adulteress.
A previously given warning is echoed here in Proverbs 27:13: Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger, and for an adulterous woman hold him in pledge (v. 13). The verse repeats Proverbs 20:16.
The verse warns those who lend: Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger. If a man is foolish enough to guarantee a stranger's debt, the lender should take the man's garment as collateral for his own protection. The lender's logic: this man's judgment is unreliable enough that ordinary collateral is insufficient.
For an adulterous woman hold him in pledge. The same principle applies even more strongly when the entanglement involves an adulterous woman. The man's poor choices in one area predict poor reliability in others. The verse, doubled across the book, names the pattern that careless guarantors set up their lenders for loss.
Proverbs 27:13
13 Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger;
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Proverbs 27:13 meaning
A previously given warning is echoed here in Proverbs 27:13: Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger, and for an adulterous woman hold him in pledge (v. 13). The verse repeats Proverbs 20:16.
The verse warns those who lend: Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger. If a man is foolish enough to guarantee a stranger's debt, the lender should take the man's garment as collateral for his own protection. The lender's logic: this man's judgment is unreliable enough that ordinary collateral is insufficient.
For an adulterous woman hold him in pledge. The same principle applies even more strongly when the entanglement involves an adulterous woman. The man's poor choices in one area predict poor reliability in others. The verse, doubled across the book, names the pattern that careless guarantors set up their lenders for loss.