KJV King James Version
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
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Proverbs 6:1
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,
WEB World English Bible
My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;
ASV American Standard Version
My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,
Surrounding context — Proverbs 6
1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
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Proverbs 17:18A man void of understanding striketh hands, [and] becometh surety in the presence of his friend.Proverbs 22:26Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.Proverbs 20:16Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.Proverbs 11:15He that is surety for a stranger shall smart [for it]: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.Genesis 44:32-33For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.Genesis 43:9I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:Hebrews 7:22By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.Philemon 1:18-19If he hath wronged thee, or oweth [thee] ought, put that on mine account;Proverbs 27:13Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.Job 17:3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
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