Proverbs 27:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of a stranger.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:16 : 16 Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.
  • Exod 22:26 : 26 If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,
  • Prov 6:1-4 : 1 Admonitions and Warnings against Dangerous and Destructive Acts My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, if you have become a guarantor for a stranger, 2 if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken, 3 then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor. 4 Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
  • Prov 22:26-27 : 26 Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts. 27 If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 20:16
    93%

    16Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.

  • Prov 11:15-16
    2 verses
    79%

    15The one who has put up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands is secure.

    16A generous woman gains honor, and ruthless men seize wealth.

  • Deut 24:10-13
    4 verses
    77%

    10When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

    11You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.

    12If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

    13You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the LORD your God.

  • Prov 6:1
    77%

    1Admonitions and Warnings against Dangerous and Destructive Acts My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, if you have become a guarantor for a stranger,

  • Job 22:6
    76%

    6“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

  • Exod 22:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,

    27for it is his only covering– it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

  • Deut 24:17
    75%

    17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • Prov 17:18
    75%

    18The one who lacks sense strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.

  • Prov 22:25-27
    3 verses
    75%

    25lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

    26Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.

    27If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

  • Job 17:3
    74%

    3Set my pledge beside you. Who else will put up security for me?

  • Prov 5:20
    73%

    20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

  • Deut 24:6
    73%

    6One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.

  • Prov 7:5
    73%

    5so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.

  • Prov 27:12
    73%

    12A shrewd person saw danger–he hid himself; the naive passed right on by– they had to pay for it.

  • Prov 2:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words;

    17who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.

  • Ezek 16:32
    72%

    32“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • Prov 6:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.

    27Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes?

  • Prov 23:33
    71%

    33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.

  • Exod 22:13-16
    4 verses
    71%

    13If it is torn in pieces, then he will bring it for evidence, and he will not have to pay for what was torn.

    14“If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.

    15If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.

    16Moral and Ceremonial Laws“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and goes to bed with her, he must surely pay the marriage price for her to be his wife.

  • Deut 28:30
    70%

    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • Prov 6:24
    70%

    24by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

  • Prov 23:27
    70%

    27for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.

  • Prov 5:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,

    10lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.

  • Deut 25:11
    70%

    11If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his private parts,

  • Deut 22:14
    70%

    14accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”

  • Exod 22:7
    70%

    7“If a man gives his neighbor money or articles for safekeeping, and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he must repay double.

  • Gen 39:13
    70%

    13When she saw that he had left his outer garment in her hand and had run outside,

  • Prov 22:14
    70%

    14The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.

  • Prov 6:31
    69%

    31Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.

  • Ezek 18:7
    69%

    7does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

  • Prov 7:20
    69%

    20He has taken a bag of money with him; he will not return until the end of the month.”

  • Gen 38:20
    69%

    20Then Judah had his friend Hirah the Adullamite take a young goat to get back from the woman the items he had given in pledge, but Hirah could not find her.

  • Gen 39:16
    69%

    16So she laid his outer garment beside her until his master came home.

  • Exod 22:11
    69%

    11then there will be an oath to the LORD between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.

  • Deut 22:28
    69%

    28Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered.

  • Job 24:3
    69%

    3They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

  • Prov 5:17
    69%

    17Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.