Proverbs 6:1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,

English Standard Version
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,

New American Standard Bible
My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, Have given a pledge for a stranger,

King James Bible
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor or entered into an agreement with a stranger,

International Standard Version
My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor, if you have agreed to a deal with a stranger,

American Standard Version
My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger.

Darby Bible Translation
My son, if thou hast become surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand for a stranger,

Young's Literal Translation
My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,

Cross References

Proverbs 6:2
You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

Proverbs 11:15
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hates indebtedness is sure.

Proverbs 17:18
A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes surety in the presence of his friend.

Proverbs 20:16
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Proverbs 22:26
Be not you one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Proverbs 27:13
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Isaiah 2:6
Therefore you have forsaken your people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

6:1-5 If we live as directed by the word of God, we shall find it profitable even in this present world. We are stewards of our worldly substance, and have to answer to the Lord for our disposal of it; to waste it in rash schemes, or such plans as may entangle us in difficulties and temptations, is wrong. A man ought never to be surety for more than he is able and willing to pay, and can afford to pay, without wronging his family; he ought to look upon every sum he is engaged for, as his own debt. If we must take all this care to get our debts to men forgiven, much more to obtain forgiveness with God. Humble thyself to him, make sure of Christ as thy Friend, to plead for thee; pray earnestly that thy sins may be pardoned, and that thou mayest be kept from going down to the pit.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 6

Pr 6:1-35. After admonitions against suretyship and sloth (compare Pr 6:6-8), the character and fate of the wicked generally are set forth, and the writer (Pr 6:20-35) resumes the warnings against incontinence, pointing out its certain and terrible results. This train of thought seems to intimate the kindred of these vices.

1, 2. if—The condition extends through both verses.

be surety—art pledged.

stricken … hand—bargained (compare Job 17:3).

with a stranger—that is, for a friend (compare Pr 11:15; 17:18).