Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Take his garment—implies severe exaction, justified by the surety's rashness.
a strange woman—by some readings "strangers," but the former here, and in Proverbs 27:13, is allowable, and strengthens the sense. The debauchee is less reliable than the merely careless.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Proverbs 20:16:
Proverbs 27:12-13
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