Proverbs 22:26
Be not of them who strike hands, of them who are sureties for debts:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 thou learn his ways, and take a snare to thy soul.
27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should one take away thy bed from under thee?
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15He that becometh surety for a stranger, goeth to utter ruin, but, he that hateth striking hands, is secure.
Proverbs 27:13Take a man’s garment when he hath become pledge for a stranger, then, for a female unknown, accept him as surety.
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 →