Strange verse....

Rather stark and repeated verse ..

Pro 27:13    Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

I missed it earlier.

Pro 20:16    Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Exodus 22:26   (KJV)

26  If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

Pro 6:1    My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Pro 6:2    Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

Pro 6:3    Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

Pro 6:4    Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

Pro 6:5    Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Pro 6:6    Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

Pro 6:7    Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

Pro 6:8    Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Pro 6:9    How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

Pro 6:10    Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

Pro 6:11    So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

M Henry

Proverbs 27:13

This also we had before, Pro 20:16. 1. It shows who those are that are hastening to poverty, those that have so little consideration as to be bound for every body that will ask them and those that are given to women. Such as these will take up money as far as ever their credit will go, but they will certainly cheat their creditors at last, nay, they are cheating them all along. An honest man may be made a beggar, but he is not honest that makes himself one. 2. It advises us to be so discreet in ordering our affairs as not to lend money to those who are manifestly wasting their estates, unless they give very good security for it. Foolish lending is injustice to our families. He does not say, “Get another to be bound with him,” for he that makes himself a common voucher will have those to be his security who are as insolvent as himself; therefore take his garment.

Proverbs 20:16

Two sorts of persons are here spoken of that are ruining their own estates, and will be beggars shortly, and therefore are not to be trusted with any good security: - 1. Those that will be bound for any body that will ask them, that entangle themselves in rash suretiship to oblige their idle companions; they will break at last, nay, they cannot hold out long; these waste by wholesale. 2. Those that are in league with abandoned women, that treat them, and court them, and keep company with them. They will be beggars in a little time; never give them credit without good pledge. Strange women have strange ways of impoverishing men to enrich themselves.

Proverbs 20:16 Gill

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger,.... Which a man is cautioned against, Pro 6:1; but if a man will be so weak and foolish, others ought to take care of him, and be cautious how they trust him; for he is in danger of being ruined by his suretyship, and therefore nothing should be lent him without a pledge, without a proper security; for though it was not lawful to take the garment of a poor man for a pledge, at least it was not to be kept after sunset, Exo 22:26; yet it was right to take such a man's garment who had or would be thought to have such an abundance as to be surety for a stranger. Some think these words are to be taken as a prophecy of what would be the case of such a man that is a surety for a stranger; in the issue he will be stripped of all he has, and have not a coat to put on. It has been applied to our Lord Jesus Christ, who became a surety for such who were foreigners and strangers, and aliens from the commonwealth of Israel; and who had the garment of his human nature taken from him and which was a pledge and ransom for the sins of his people;

and take a pledge of him for a strange woman; a harlot; such as have to do with lewd women are not to be trusted; for they are in a fair way for ruin, and therefore should not be intrusted with anything without a pledge; all in connection with such creatures lose their credit; it is dangerous having any concern with them in trade for they are liable to be brought to a piece of bread; and therefore persons should be cautious how they trade with them, and should observe to secure themselves.