OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 29:18

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Being surety has undone many who were prospering and shaken them as a wave of the sea. It has driven mighty men from their homes. They wandered among foreign nations.

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Verse 18. Himself. Yet he will not engage his word for more than he can pay, (verse 27 chapter 8:16) nor encourage the negligence of debtors. Proverbs 6:1.

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