Proverbs 22:26
24 Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
25 or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
27 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
- KJV
- Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
- WEB
- Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.
- ASV
- Be thou not one of them that strike hands, [Or] of them that are sureties for debts.
- DARBY
- Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts:
- BLB
- Do not be among those striking hands in the pledging [for] loans.
- ÅB
- Vær ikke blant dem som gir håndslag, dem som borger for gjeld!
- OTB
- Vær ikke blant dem som slår hender i pant, eller blant dem som blir garantister for gjeld.
- B1930
- Vær ikke blandt dem som gir håndslag, dem som borger for gjeld!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 11:15
He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
Read in contextProverbs 17:18
A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.
Read in contextProverbs 6:1–5
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,
Read in contextProverbs 27:13
Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
Read in context