Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 27:13

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

13. See Pro 20:16 and notes.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Verse 13. Take his garment] The same as Pr 20:16.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

Possibly this is here repeated as a part of the fathers counsel to his son, begun Pro 27:11, to avoid rash suretiship, to which young men are most prone, and by which they are exposed in the beginning of their days to many sins and miseries, which they carry with them to their graves.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. [See comments on Pr 20:16], where the same proverb is, and is expressed in the same words as here.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

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Take from him the garment, for he hath become surety for another,

And for the sake of a strange matter put him under bonds.

= Pro 20:16, vid., there. we interpret neut. (lxx ; Jerome, pro alienis ), although certainly the case occurs that one becomes surety for a strange woman (Aquila, Theodotion, ), by whose enticements and flatteries he is taken, and who afterwards leaves him in the lurch with the debts for which he had become security, to show her costly favour to another.

Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament

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

      This also we had before, ch. xx. 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.

Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary