“Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me?
This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.
Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!
Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.
Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me.
For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’
I will be a pledge of his safety. From my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.
There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.
Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.
Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.
One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
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