Proverbs 6:1
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
In Context
2Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.
Cross References
Genesis 43:9I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.
Job 17:3Deliver me O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.
Proverbs 17:18A foolish man will clap hands, when he is surety for his friend.
Proverbs 22:26Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:
Philemon 1:18And if he hath wronged thee in any thing, or is in thy debt, put that to my account.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:1
In this chapter we have, I. A caution against rash suretiship, ver. 1-5 . II. A rebuke to slothfulness, ver. 6-11 . III. The character and fate of a malicious mischievous man, ver. 12-15 . IV. An account of seven things which God hates, ver. 16-19 . V. An exhortation to make the word of God familiar to us, ver. 20-23 . VI. A repeated warning of the pernicious consequences of the sin of whoredom, ver. 24-35 . We are here dissuaded from sin very much by arguments borrowed from our secular interests, for it is not… Read the whole commentary →