Proverbs 6:1
My sonne, if thou be surety for thy neighbour, and hast striken hands with the stranger,
Geneva Bible 1599
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
Cross References
Genesis 43:9I wil be suertie for him: of mine hand shalt thou require him. If I bring him not to thee, and set him before thee, then let me beare the blame for euer.
Job 17:3Lay downe nowe and put me in suretie for thee: who is hee, that will touch mine hand?
Proverbs 17:18A man destitute of vnderstanding, toucheth the hande, and becommeth suretie for his neighbour.
Proverbs 22:26Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts.
Philemon 1:18If he hath hurt thee, or oweth thee ought, that put on mine accounts.
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 →