Proverbs 17:18 Cross References - LEB

¹⁸ A person who lacks _⌊sense_⌋* _⌊pledges_⌋;* he becomes security before his neighbor.

¹ My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, if you have bound _⌊yourself_⌋* to the stranger, ² if you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, if you are caught by the sayings of your mouth, ³ do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into _⌊the palm of your neighbor's hand_⌋:* Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor. ⁴ Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids. ⁵ Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

¹⁵ He will suffer trouble when he loans to a stranger, but he who refuses a pledge is safe.

¹⁶ Take his garment, for he has given security to a stranger, and on behalf of a foreigner—take it as pledge.

¹⁶ He who oppresses the poor in order to enrich himself, or gives to the rich, _⌊will come to poverty_⌋.*

²⁶ Do not be with those who _⌊give a pledge_⌋* _⌊by becoming_⌋* surety. ²⁷ If there is nothing for you to pay,* why will he take your bed from under you?