Proverbs 22:26
Be not one of those that pledge their hand, or of those that are sureties for debts.
Leeser Tanakh
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 learn his ways, and get a snare for thy own soul.
27If thou have nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15With evil will he be overwhelmed that is surety for a stranger: but he that hateth giving the hand as pledge is safe.
Proverbs 27:13Take his garment, for he became surety for a stranger; and on account of an alien woman take a pledge of him.
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 →