Proverbs 27:13

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

EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(13) Take a pledge of him for a strange woman.—See above on Proverbs 20:16; and for “strange woman” comp. note on Proverbs 2:16.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

27:9,10. Depend not for relief upon a kinsman, merely for kindred's sake; apply to those who are at hand, and will help in need. But there is a Friend that sticketh closer than a brother, and let us place entire confidence in him. 11. An affectionate parent urges his son to prudent conduct that should gladden his heart. The good conduct of Christians is the best answer to all who find fault with the gospel. 12. Where there is temptation, if we thrust ourselves into it, there will be sin, and punishment will follow. 13. An honest man may be made a beggar, but he is not honest that makes himself one. 14. It is folly to be fond of being praised; it is a temptation to pride.#REF!#REF!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

12, 13. (Compare Pr 20:16; 22:3).

Matthew Poole's Commentary

Possibly this is here repeated as a part of the father’s counsel to his son, begun Proverbs 27:11, to avoid rash suretiship, to which young men are most prone, and by which they are exposed in the beginning of their days to many sins and miseries, which they carry with them to their graves.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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

Geneva Study Bible

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

EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

13. See Proverbs 20:16 and notes.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - A repetition of Proverbs 20:16. The LXX., which omits this passage in its proper place, here translates, "Take away his garment, for a scorner passed by, whoever lays waste another's goods." Proverbs 27:13

Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

ערום alliterates with ערב.

Take from him the garment, for he hath become surety for another,

And for the sake of a strange matter put him under bonds.

equals Proverbs 20:16, vid., there. נכריּה we interpret neut. (lxx τὰ ἀλλότρια; Jerome, pro alienis), although certainly the case occurs that one becom