“He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 11 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.