Proverbs 22:26

26 Don't be one of those who give pledges, guaranteeing loans made to others;

Proverbs 22:26 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 22:26

Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands
Or "among them" F13, of the number of them, that do as they do, give their hand or their bond for others; he surety for them, as it is explained in the following clause; see ( Proverbs 6:1 ) ( 17:18 ) ; [or] of them that are sureties for debts;
contracted by others; that engage for the payment of them, in case the principal fails: and it is much if persons that keep indifferent company, angry and furious men, who are often in broils and quarrels, and spend their time and substance in strife and contention, are not drawn into engagements of this kind.


FOOTNOTES:

F13 (b) "inter", Pagninus, Tigurine version, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Proverbs 22:26 In-Context

24 Don't associate with an angry man; make no hot-tempered man your companion.
25 If you do, you may learn his ways and find yourself caught in a trap.
26 Don't be one of those who give pledges, guaranteeing loans made to others;
27 for if you don't have the wherewithal to pay, they will take your bed away from underneath you.
28 Don't move the ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.
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