Proverbs 22:26
Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.
World English Bible British
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 his ways and ensnare your soul.
27If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.
Proverbs 27:13Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!
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 →