Ben Sira 29:14-19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
14 [a]A good person will be surety for a neighbor,
but whoever has lost a sense of shame will fail him.(A)
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 prosperous
and tossed them about like waves of the sea;(B)
It has exiled the prominent
and sent them wandering through foreign lands.
19 The sinner will come to grief through surety,
and whoever undertakes too much will fall into lawsuits.
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