Pro 6:1-5, 11:15, 20:16, 22:16, 27 | 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 20:16

16 ^jTake a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger,
and ^khold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners. ^{▼▼Or for an adulteress (compare 27:13)}

Proverbs 22:16

16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth,
or gives to the rich, ^mwill only come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:27

27 If you have nothing with which to pay,
why should ⁿyour bed be taken from under you?