Proverbs 22:26
Do not be among those striking hands, || Among sureties [for] burdens.
Literal Standard 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
25Lest you learn his paths, || And have received a snare to your soul.
27If you have nothing to pay, || Why does he take your bed from under you?
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15An evil [one] suffers when he has been guarantor [for] a stranger, || And whoever hates striking hands [in agreement] is confident.
Proverbs 27:13Take his garment when a stranger has been guarantor, || And pledge it for a strange 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 →