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12 When the clever sees danger, he hides;
    the simple go on and suffer.
13 Take his garment, for he gives surety to a stranger,
    and to an adulteress[a]so take his pledge.
14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice
    early in the morning,
    a curse will be reckoned to him.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:13 Literally “a foreign woman”

12 The prudent see danger and take refuge,
    but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.(A)

13 Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger;
    hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.(B)

14 If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning,
    it will be taken as a curse.

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