Proverbs 22:26
Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
In Context
25Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger: but he that is aware of the snares, shall be secure.
Proverbs 27:13Take away his garment that hath been surety for a stranger: and take from him a pledge for strangers.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:25-26
Prudential Maxims. 24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: 25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. Here is, 1. A good caution against being intimate with a passionate man. It is the law of friendship that we accommodate ourselves to our friends and be ready to serve them, and therefore we ought to be wise and wary in the choice of a friend, that we come not under the sacred tie to any one whom it would be our folly to accommodate ourselves to. Thought we… Read the whole commentary →