Pro 6:1-5, 11:15, 17:18, 27:13 | ESV | STEP | My son , if you have put up security for your neighbor , have given your pledge for a stranger ,

Proverbs 6:1-5

Practical Warnings

1 My son, if you have put up ^asecurity for your neighbor,
have ^bgiven your pledge for a stranger,
2 if you are ^csnared in the words of your mouth,
caught in the words of your mouth,
3 then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
go, hasten, ^{▼▼Or humble yourself} and ^eplead urgently with your neighbor.
4 ^fGive your eyes no sleep
and your eyelids no slumber;
5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks of the hunter}
^hlike a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Proverbs 11:15

15 ⁱWhoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm,
but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

Proverbs 17:18

18 One who lacks sense gives a pledge
and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.

Proverbs 27:13

13 ^jTake a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger,
and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress. ^{▼▼Hebrew a foreign woman; a slight emendation yields (compare Vulgate; see also 20:16) foreigners}