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Proverbs 22:26 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 22 · verse 26
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.Proverbs 22:26 · King James Version
Proverbs 22:26 in context
24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
25Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
28Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
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We have here, as often before, a caution against suretiship, as a thing both imprudent and unjust. 1. We must not associate ourselves, nor contract an intimacy, with men of broken fortunes, and reputations, who need and will urge their friends to be bound for them, that they may cheat their neighbours to feed their…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 26-27