Proverbs 20:16 Cross References - LEB

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

²⁶ If indeed you require the cloak of your neighbor as a pledge, you will return it to him at sundown, ²⁷ because it is his only garment; it is his cloak for his skin. In what will he sleep? _⌊And_⌋* when he cries out to me, I will hear, because I am gracious.

¹⁶ in order to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman who flatters* with her sayings,

³ For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth.*

⁵ In order to guard yourself from _⌊an adulteress_⌋,* from the foreigner who _⌊makes her words smooth_⌋.*

¹⁰ Then behold! A woman comes to meet him with the garment of a prostitute* and _⌊a secret heart_⌋.*

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

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?

²⁷ For a deep pit is a prostitute,* and a narrow well is _⌊an adulteress_⌋.*

¹³ Take his garment, for he gives surety to a stranger, and to _⌊an adulteress_⌋*—so take his pledge.