Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider. New Living Translation Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt. Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners. English Standard Version Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners. Berean Standard Bible Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner. King James Bible Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. New King James Version Take the garment of one who is surety for a stranger, And hold it as a pledge when it is for a seductress. New American Standard Bible Take his garment when he becomes guarantor for a stranger; And for foreigners, seize a pledge from him. NASB 1995 Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger; And for foreigners, hold him in pledge. NASB 1977 Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger; And for foreigners, hold him in pledge. Legacy Standard Bible Take his garment when he becomes a guarantor for a stranger; And for foreigners, hold him in pledge. Amplified Bible [The judge tells the creditor], “Take the clothes of one who is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge [when he guarantees a loan] for foreigners.” Christian Standard Bible Take his garment, for he has put up security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for foreigners. Holman Christian Standard Bible Take his garment, for he has put up security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for foreigners. American Standard Version Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for foreigners. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Take the cloak of one that pledges security for a foreigner, and for the sake of foreigners take his pledge. Contemporary English Version You deserve to lose your coat if you loan it to someone to guarantee payment for the debt of a stranger. Douay-Rheims Bible Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers. English Revised Version Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety for strangers. GOD'S WORD® Translation Hold on to the garment of one who guarantees a stranger's loan, and hold responsible the person who makes a loan on behalf of a foreigner. Good News Translation Anyone stupid enough to promise to be responsible for a stranger's debts ought to have their own property held to guarantee payment. International Standard Version Take the garment of anyone who puts up collateral for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for an unfamiliar woman. JPS Tanakh 1917 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for an alien woman. Literal Standard Version When a stranger has been guarantor, take his garment, | And pledge it for strangers. Majority Standard Bible Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner. New American Bible Take the garment of the one who became surety for a stranger; if for foreigners, exact the pledge! NET Bible Take a man's garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for strangers, hold him in pledge. New Revised Standard Version Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners. New Heart English Bible Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman. Webster's Bible Translation Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. World English Bible Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman. Young's Literal Translation Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Wine is a Mocker…15There is an abundance of gold and rubies, but lips of knowledge are a rare treasure. 16Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner. 17Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.… Cross References Exodus 22:26 If you take your neighbor's cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, Proverbs 6:1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger, Proverbs 20:15 There is an abundance of gold and rubies, but lips of knowledge are a rare treasure. Proverbs 20:17 Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel. Proverbs 22:27 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? Proverbs 27:13 Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner. Treasury of Scripture Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. take his Proverbs 11:15 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure. Proverbs 22:26,27 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts… Proverbs 27:13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. strange Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: Proverbs 7:5,10 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words… Jump to Previous Alien Clothing Collateral Foreigners Garment Gives Hold Makes Pledge Puts Responsible Security Strange Stranger Surety Undertaking WaywardJump to Next Alien Clothing Collateral Foreigners Garment Gives Hold Makes Pledge Puts Responsible Security Strange Stranger Surety Undertaking WaywardProverbs 20 1. Proper Living(16) Take his garment that is surety for a stranger.--Another warning against suretiship. (See above on Proverbs 6:1.) If a man is rash enough to become surety for another, he must suffer for his imprudence, and learn wisdom by feeling the effects of his folly. And take a pledge of him for a strange woman.--Rather, take him as a pledge (seize upon his person who has become surety) for a strange woman, (according to the margin) or, for strangers (as the text reads). Verse 16. - Take his garment that is surety for a stranger. The maxim is repeated in Proverbs 27:13; and warnings against suretyship are found in Proverbs 6:1, etc.; Proverbs 11:15; 17:18; 22:26, etc. The second portion of the clause is translated also, "For he is surety for another." If a man is so weak and foolish as to become security for any one, and is unable to make good his engaged payment, let him lose his garment which the creditor would seize; his imprudence must bring its own punishment. And take a pledge of him for a strange woman. The Authorized Version probably adopts this rendering in conformity with Proverbs 27:13, where it occurs in the text, as here in the margin (the Keri). But the Khetib has, "for strangers," which seems to be the original reading; and the first words ought to be translated, "hold him in pledge;" i.e. seize his person for the sake of the strangers for whom he has stood security, so as not to suffer loss from them. The Law endeavoured to secure lending to needy brethren without interest (see Psalm 15:5; Ezekiel 18:8, 13, etc.; Ezekiel 22:12): but it allowed the creditor to secure himself by taking pledges of his debtor, while it regulated this system so as to obviate most of its severity and oppressiveness (see the restrictions in Exodus 22:26, etc.; Deuteronomy 24:6, 12, etc.). "Where the debtor possessed nothing which he could pledge, he gave the personal security of a friend. This was a very formal proceeding. The surety gave his hand both to the debtor and to the creditor before an assembly legally convened, he deposited a pledge, and, in accordance with this twofold promise, was regarded by the creditor in just the same light as the debtor himself, and treated accordingly. If the debtor, or in his place the surety, was unable to pay the debt when it fell due, he was entirely at the mercy of the creditor. The authorities troubled themselves but little about these relations, and the law, so far as it is preserved to us, gave no directions in the matter. We see, however, from many allusions and narratives, what harsh forms these relations actually took, especially in later times, when the ancient national brotherly love which the Law presupposed was more and more dying out. The creditor could not only forcibly appropriate all the movable, but also the fixed property, including the hereditary estate (this at least till its redemption in the year of jubilee), nay, he could even (if he could find nothing else of value) carry off as a prisoner the body of his debtor, or of his wife and child, to employ them in his service, though this could only he done for a definite period" (Ewald, 'Antiquities,' p. 184, etc., transl.).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Takeלְֽקַח־ (lə·qaḥ-) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 3947: To take the garment בִּ֭גְדוֹ (biḡ·ḏōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage of the one כִּי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction who posts security עָ֣רַב (‘ā·raḇ) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6148: To braid, intermix, technically, to traffic, give to be security for a stranger; זָ֑ר (zār) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery get collateral חַבְלֵֽהוּ׃ (ḥaḇ·lê·hū) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine singular Strong's 2254: To wind tightly, to bind, a pledge, to pervert, destroy, to writhe in pain if it is for וּבְעַ֖ד (ū·ḇə·‘aḏ) Conjunctive waw | Preposition Strong's 1157: In up to, over against, at, beside, among, behind, for a wayward woman. נָכְרִיָּ֣ה (nā·ḵə·rî·yāh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 5237: Foreign, alien Links Proverbs 20:16 NIVProverbs 20:16 NLT Proverbs 20:16 ESV Proverbs 20:16 NASB Proverbs 20:16 KJV Proverbs 20:16 BibleApps.com Proverbs 20:16 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 20:16 Chinese Bible Proverbs 20:16 French Bible Proverbs 20:16 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 20:16 Take the garment of one who puts (Prov. 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