16Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:16
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Verse 16
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Original words
Takeלְֽקַח־H3947Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singularthe garmentבִּ֭גְדוֹH899Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singularof the oneכִּי־H3588Conjunctionwho posts securityעָ֣רַבH6148Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singularfor a strangerזָ֑רH2114Adjective - masculine singularget collateralחַבְלֵֽהוּ׃H2254Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine singularif it is forוּבְעַ֖דH1157Conjunctive waw | Prepositiona foreignerנָכְרִיםH5237Adjective - feminine singular
BSB notes
- Or a wayward woman