Proverbs 6:1
My son, if you become surety for your friend, you shall deliver your hand to an enemy.
LXX2012 (British)
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
2For a man's own lips become a strong snare to him, and he is caught with the lips of his own mouth.
Cross References
Genesis 43:9And I engage for him; at my hand do you require him; if I bring him not to you, and place him before you, I shall be guilty towards you for ever.
Job 17:3Who is this? let him join hands with me.
Proverbs 17:18A foolish man applauds and rejoices over himself, as he also that becomes surety would make himself responsible for his own friends.
Proverbs 22:26Become not surety from respect of a man's person.
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 →