16 Take 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
Take לְֽקַח־ H3947 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular the garment בִּ֭גְדוֹ H899 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular of the one כִּי־ H3588 Conjunction who posts security עָ֣רַב H6148 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular for a stranger זָ֑ר H2114 Adjective - masculine singular get collateral חַבְלֵֽהוּ׃ H2254 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine singular if it is for וּבְעַ֖ד H1157 Conjunctive waw | Preposition a foreigner נָכְרִים H5237 Adjective - feminine singular
BSB notes
- Or a wayward woman