13 Better than a mighty shield and a sturdy spearit will fight for you against the enemy.
14 A good person will be surety for a neighbor,but whoever has lost a sense of shame will fail him.
15 Do not forget the kindness of your backer,for he has given his very life for you.
16 A sinner will turn the favor of a pledge into misfortune,
17 and the ungrateful will abandon his rescuer.
18 Going surety has ruined many who were prosperousand tossed them about like waves of the sea;It has exiled the prominentand sent them wandering through foreign lands.
19 The sinner will come to grief through surety,and whoever undertakes too much will fall into lawsuits.