Proverbs 22:26
Do not be one who strikes hands in making a pledge, 1 or who puts up security for debts. 1
Unlocked Literal 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
25or you will learn his ways 1 and you will take bait for your soul. 1
27If you lack the means to pay, 1 what could stop someone from taking away your bed from under you? 1
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15Whoever guarantees a loan for a stranger will surely suffer harm, 1 but the one who hates giving a pledge in that kind of promise is safe. 1
Proverbs 27:13Take a garment of one who has put up security for a stranger, 1 and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an immoral woman. 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 →