12 (A)The prudent sees danger and hides himself,
    but (B)the simple go on and suffer for it.
13 (C)Take 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.[a]
14 Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice,
    rising early in the morning,
    will be counted as cursing.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:13 Hebrew a foreign woman; a slight emendation yields (compare Vulgate; see also 20:16) foreigners

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