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12 A prudent man sees danger and hides himself;
    but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
13 Take a man’s garment when he has given surety for a stranger,
    and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.[a]
14 He who 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 Vg and 20.16: Heb a foreign woman

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