Proverbs 22:26
Don't shake hands and guarantee someone's debt,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
In Context
25in case you learn to be like them and make a mess of your life.
27for if you can't pay, why should your bed be taken away from beneath you?
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15You'll get into trouble if you guarantee a stranger's loans—you're far safer if you refuse to make such pledges.
Proverbs 27:13If someone guarantees a stranger's debt with their cloak, be sure to take it! Make sure you have whatever is pledged to an immoral woman!
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 →