Proverbs 22:26
אַל ־ תְּהִי בְתֹֽקְעֵי ־ כָף בַּעֹרְבִים מַשָּׁאֽוֹת ׃
Hebrew Tanakh (Original)
In The King James Version
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
In Context
25פֶּן ־ תֶּאֱלַף ארחתו וְלָקַחְתָּ מוֹקֵשׁ לְנַפְשֶֽׁךָ ׃
27אִם ־ אֵֽין ־ לְךָ לְשַׁלֵּם לָמָּה יִקַּח מִשְׁכָּבְךָ מִתַּחְתֶּֽיךָ ׃
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15רַע ־ יֵרוֹעַ כִּי ־ עָרַב זָר וְשֹׂנֵא תֹקְעִים בּוֹטֵֽחַ ׃
Proverbs 27:13קַח ־ בִּגְדוֹ כִּי ־ עָרַב זָר וּבְעַד נָכְרִיָּה חַבְלֵֽהוּ ׃
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 →