Proverbs 22:26
Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties [for] burdens.
Young's Literal Translation
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 paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.
27If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15Evil [one] suffereth when he hath been surety [for] a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.
Proverbs 27:13Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.
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 →