Proverbs 27:13 (BSB)

Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

From Proverbs 27. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 27:13

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 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.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 27:13: A continual dropping in a very rainy day,.... That is, through the roof of a house which is not well covered, or which lets in rain by one means or another; so that in a thorough rainy day it keeps continually dropping, to the great annoyance of those within, and which is very uncomfortable to them: it is observed (g) that rain is called by...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 27:13: Pro 27:13 ערום alliterates with ערב. 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. נכריּה we interpret neut. (lxx τὰ ἀλλότρια; Jerome, pro alienis), although certainly the case occurs that one becomes surety for a strange woman (Aquila, Theodotion, περὶ ξένης), by whose enticements...