VERSE STUDY • KJV

Proverbs 22:26

Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.

Read it in 5 translations

Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.

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

Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

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

Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens.

23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

26 Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.

27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean [men].

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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