18
Being surety has ruined many men who were prosperous, and has shaken them like a wave of the sea; it has driven men of power into exile, and they have wandered among foreign nations.
19
The sinner who has fallen into suretyship and pursues gain will fall into lawsuits.
20
Assist your neighbor according to your ability, but take heed to yourself lest you fall.
21
The essentials for life are water and bread and clothing and a house to cover one's nakedness.
22
Better is the life of a poor man under the shelter of his roof than sumptuous food in another man's house.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.