Bible Verses About Surety

for thy servant obtained the youth by surety from my father, saying, If I bring him not in unto thee--then I have sinned against my father all the days.

if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him:

for it alone is his covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein doth he lie down? and it hath come to pass, when he doth cry unto Me, that I have heard, for I am gracious.

`When thou liftest up on thy brother a debt of anything, thou dost not go in unto his house to obtain his pledge;

at the outside thou dost stand, and the man on whom thou art lifting it up is bringing out unto thee the pledge at the outside.

`And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;

thou dost certainly give back to him the pledge at the going in of the sun, and he hath lain down in his own raiment, and hath blessed thee; and to thee it is righteousness before Jehovah thy God.

My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,

Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,

Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.

A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.

Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.

Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens.

Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

A man--he doth not oppress, His pledge to the debtor he doth return, Plunder he doth not take away, His bread to the hungry he doth give, And the naked doth cover with a garment,

The afflicted and needy he hath oppressed, Plunder he hath taken violently away, A pledge he doth not return, And unto the idols he hath lifted up his eyes, Abomination he hath done!

(The pledge the wicked restoreth, plunder he repayeth,) In the statutes of life he hath walked, So as not to do perversity, He surely liveth--he doth not die.

And on pledged garments they stretch themselves near every altar, And the wine of fined ones they drink in the house of their gods.