Proverbs 6:1
My son! If you have been guarantor for your friend, || Have struck your hand for a stranger,
Literal Standard Version
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
2Have been snared with sayings of your mouth, || Have been captured with sayings of your mouth,
Cross References
Genesis 43:9I am guarantor [for] him, from my hand you require him; if I have not brought him to you, and set him before you—then I have sinned against you all the days;
Job 17:3Now place my pledge with You; Who is he that strikes hand with me?
Proverbs 17:18A man lacking heart is striking hands, || He becomes a guarantor before his friend.
Proverbs 22:26Do not be among those striking hands, || Among sureties [for] burdens.
Philemon 1:18and if he did hurt to you, or owes anything, charge this to me;
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 →