Proverbs 22:26
Be not thou one of them that binde their hande vpon promise, and are suretie for waightie causes:
Bible (Bishops')
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 thou learne his wayes, and receaue hurt to thy soule.
27For if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from vnder thee.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15He that is suretie for a straunger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretishyp is sure.
Proverbs 27:13Take his garment that is suretie for a straunger, and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen sake.
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 →