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

◄ Proverbs 22:26 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts;

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

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

King James Bible
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

22:26,27. Every man ought to be just to himself, and his family; those are not so, who, by folly or other carelessness, waste what they have. 28. We are taught not to trespass on another man's right. And it is hard to find a truly industrious man. Such a man will rise. Seest thou a man diligent in the business of religion? He is likely to excel. Let us then be diligent in God's work.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

26, 27. (Compare Pr 6:1; 17:18).