The one who puts up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands will be secure.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.

Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for strangers, hold him in pledge.

The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.

Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for a stranger, hold him in pledge.

“Foreigners will take care of your sheep; foreigners will work in your fields and vineyards.

I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world’s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.

“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!

You must not offer strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering, and you must not pour out a drink offering on it.

Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest will be cut off from his people.’”

“‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,

If a priest’s daughter marries a lay person, she may not eat the holy contribution offerings,

So you are to appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will be responsible for their priesthood; but the unauthorized person who comes near must be put to death.”

I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,

There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.

like heat in a dry land, you humble the boasting foreigners. Just as the shadow of a cloud causes the heat to subside, so he causes the song of tyrants to cease.