12. Shut up alms in your store-chambers; And it shall deliver you out of all affliction:
13. It shall fight for you against your enemy Better than a mighty shield and a ponderous spear.
14. A good man will be surety for his neighbor; And he that has lost shame will fail him.
15. Forget not the good offices of your surety; For he has given his life for you.
16. A sinner will overthrow the good estate of his surety;
17. And he that is of an unthankful mind will fail him that delivered him.
18. Suretiship has undone many that were prospering, And shaken them as a wave of the sea: Mighty men has it driven from their homes; And they wandered among strange nations.
19. A sinner that falls into suretiship, And undertakes contracts for work, shall fall into lawsuits.