Wine Is a Mocker
Proverbs 20:16
In 10 translations
- BSB
- Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.Or a wayward woman
- KJV
- Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
- WEB
- Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
- ASV
- Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for foreigners.
- LSV
- When a stranger has been guarantor, take his garment, || And pledge it for strangers.
- YLT
- Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.
- DBY
- Take his garment that is become surety [for] another, and hold him in pledge for strangers.
- DRC
- Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.
- GNV
- Take his garment, that is suretie for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.
- JPS
- Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety for an alien woman.
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- Written (Ketiv): נָכְרִים (“foreigners”). Read aloud (Qere): נָכְרִיָּ֣ה (“a foreign [woman]”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads נָכְרִיָּ֣ם; read aloud (Qere) reads נָכְרִיָּ֣ה (“a foreign [woman]”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- לְֽקַח־בִּ֭גְדוֹ כִּי־עָ֣רַב זָ֑ר וּבְעַ֖ד נכרים חַבְלֵֽהוּ׃Read aloud as (qere): נָכְרִיָּ֣ה
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
SuretyLoanSuretyshipSurety (Guarantee)PledgeDebt; DebtorLasciviousnessPrudenceProverbs, the Book ofWisdom
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 27:13Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
- Exodus 22:26–27If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am…
- Proverbs 22:26–27Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
- Proverbs 11:15He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
- Proverbs 7:5that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
- Proverbs 7:10Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
- Proverbs 5:3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
- Proverbs 23:27For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).