Proverbs 27:13

13 Take the coat of someone who promises to pay a stranger's loan, and keep it until he pays what the stranger owes.

Proverbs 27:13 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 27:13

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.

Proverbs 27:13 In-Context

11 Be wise, my child, and make me happy. Then I can respond to any insult.
12 The wise see danger ahead and avoid it, but fools keep going and get into trouble.
13 Take the coat of someone who promises to pay a stranger's loan, and keep it until he pays what the stranger owes.
14 If you loudly greet your neighbor early in the morning, he will think of it as a curse.
15 A quarreling wife is as bothersome as a continual dripping on a rainy day.
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