Proverbs 22:26
Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
In Context
25Least thou learne his wayes, and receiue destruction to thy soule.
27If thou hast nothing to paye, why causest thou that he should take thy bed from vnder thee?
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15Hee shall be sore vexed, that is suretie for a stranger, and he that hateth suretiship, is sure.
Proverbs 27:13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.
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 →