Proverbs 22:26
Become not surety from respect of a man's person.
LXX2012 (US English)
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 of his ways, and get snares to your soul.
27For if those have not whence to give compensation, they will take the bed that is under you.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15A bad man does harm wherever he meets a just man: and he hates the sound of safety.
Proverbs 27:13Take away the man's garment, (for a scorner has passed by) whoever lays waste another's goods.
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 →