Proverbs 22:26
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 Standard Bible
Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

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;

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.

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not be among those who strike hands in pledge, Among those who become guarantors 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.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not give yourself as security because you are shamed before people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Literal Standard Version
Do not be among those striking hands, | Among sureties [for] burdens.

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

New American Bible
Do not be one of those who give their hand in pledge, those who become surety for debts;

NET Bible
Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not be one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts.

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

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

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

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

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Context
Thirty Sayings of the Wise
25or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. 26Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts. 27If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?…

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

Proverbs 17:18
A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Proverbs 6:1-5
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, …

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

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

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(26) Be not thou one of them that strike hands.--Another warning against suretiship. (See above, on Proverbs 6:1.)



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

be
תְּהִ֥י (tə·hî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

one who gives pledges,
בְתֹֽקְעֵי־ (ḇə·ṯō·qə·‘ê-)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 8628: To clatter, slap, clang, to drive, to become bondsman

who puts up security
בַּ֝עֹרְבִ֗ים (ba·‘ō·rə·ḇîm)
Preposition-b, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 6148: To braid, intermix, technically, to traffic, give to be security

for debts.
מַשָּׁאֽוֹת׃ (maš·šā·’ō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 4859: A loan


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