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Proverbs 20:16

Proverbs 20:16

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible · Matthew Henry (1662–1714) · Public Domain

Two sorts of persons are here spoken of that are ruining their own

estates, and will be beggars shortly, and therefore are not to be

trusted with any good security:--1. Those that will be bound for any

body that will ask them, that entangle themselves in rash suretiship to

oblige their idle companions; they will break at last, nay, they cannot

hold out long; these waste by wholesale. 2. Those that are in league

with abandoned women, that treat them, and court them, and keep company

with them. They will be beggars in a little time; never give them

credit without good pledge. Strange women have strange ways of

impoverishing men to enrich themselves.

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