Sirach 29:10–18
10Lose your money for a brother and a friend. Don’t let it rust under a stone and be lost.↗
11Allocate your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High and it will profit you more than gold.↗
12Store up almsgiving in your store-chambers and it will deliver you out of all affliction.↗
13It will fight for you against your enemy better than a mighty shield and a ponderous spear.↗
14A good man will be surety for his neighbor. He who has lost shame will fail him.↗
15Don’t forget the kindness of your guarantor, for he has given his life for you.↗
16A sinner will waste the property of his guarantor.↗
17He who is thankless will fail him who delivered him.↗
18Being surety has undone many who were prospering and shaken them as a wave of the sea. It has driven mighty men from their homes. They wandered among foreign nations.↗
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