Proverbs 22:26

Be not thou one of them that shake hands in a pledge, 1 or of them that are collateral for masha'ot (debts, loans). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 orkhot (ways), 1 and take a mokesh (snare) for thy nefesh. 1

27If thou hast nothing with which to pay, 1 why should he take away thy mishkav (bed) from under thee? 1

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:15He that is guaranty for a zar shall suffer for it, 1 and he that hateth pledging collateral is secure. 1

Proverbs 27:13Take his beged (garment) that is collateral for a zar; 1 seize the pledge given for surety for a nokhriyah (strange woman, foreign woman, seductress). 1

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 →

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