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Proverbs 20:15-17
New Living Translation
Proverbs 20:15-17
New Living Translation
15 Wise words are more valuable
than much gold and many rubies.
16 Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt.
Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.[a]
17 Stolen bread tastes sweet,
but it turns to gravel in the mouth.
Footnotes
- 20:16 An alternate reading in the Masoretic Text is for a promiscuous woman.
New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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