Proverbs 22:26
Modern Translations
New International Version
Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts;

New Living Translation
Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt or put up security for someone else.

English Standard Version
Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.

Berean Study Bible
Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

New American Standard Bible
Do not be among those who shake hands, Among those who become guarantors for debts.

NASB 1995
Do not be among those who give pledges, Among those who become guarantors for debts.

NASB 1977
Do not be among those who give pledges, Among those who become sureties for debts.

Amplified Bible
Do not be among those who give pledges [involving themselves in others’ finances], Or among those who become guarantors for others’ debts.

Christian Standard Bible
Don’t be one of those who enter agreements, who put up security for loans.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don't be one of those who enter agreements, who put up security for loans.

Contemporary English Version
Don't guarantee to pay someone else's debt.

Good News Translation
Don't promise to be responsible for someone else's debts.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Do not be [found] among those who make deals with a handshake, among those who guarantee other people's loans.

International Standard Version
Don't be one of those who make promises to guarantee loans for debts.

NET Bible
Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

New King James Version
Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge, One of those who is surety for debts;

King James 2000 Bible
Be not one of them that gives pledges, or of them that become surety for debts.

New Heart English Bible
Do not be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

World English Bible
Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

American King James Version
Be not you one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

American Standard Version
Be thou not one of them that strike hands, Or of them that are sureties for debts.

A Faithful Version
Be not one of those who strike hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

Darby Bible Translation
Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts:

English Revised Version
Be thou not one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts:

Webster's Bible Translation
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Be not thou one of them that binde their hande vpon promise, and are suretie for waightie causes:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Be not thou one of them yt bynde ther hande vpo promyse, and are suertie for dett:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Do not be among those striking hands, "" Among sureties [for] burdens.

Young's Literal Translation
Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens.

Smith's Literal Translation
Thou shalt not be with those striking the hand with those pledging for debts.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:

Catholic Public Domain Version
Do not be willing to be with those who certify with their hands, and who offer themselves as a guarantee against debts.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Do not give yourself as security because you are shamed before people.

Lamsa Bible
Do not become a surety for a debt simply because you are ashamed to turn down those who ask you,

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Be thou not of them that strike hands, Or of them that are sureties for debts;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Become not surety from respect of a man's person.
















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