Proverbs 27:13

13 Any people stupid enough to promise to be responsible for a stranger's debts deserve to have their own property held to guarantee payment.

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 I will be happy; I will have an answer for anyone who criticizes me.

12 Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.

13 Any people stupid enough to promise to be responsible for a stranger's debts deserve to have their own property held to guarantee payment.

14 You might as well curse your friends as wake them up early in the morning with a loud greeting.

15 A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip on a rainy day.

Footnotes

• [a]. [One ancient translation] stranger's debts; [Hebrew] stranger's debts or those of an immoral woman.