Proverbs 22:26 Parallel Translations
NASB: Do not be among those who give pledges, Among those who become guarantors for debts. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Do not be found among those who make deals with a handshake, among those who guarantee other people's loans.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
ASV: Be thou not one of them that strike hands, Or of them that are sureties for debts.
BBE: Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:
DBY: Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts:
ERV: Be thou not one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts:
JPS: Be thou not of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts;
WBS: Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
WEB: Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.
YLT: Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens.
Proverbs 22:26 Cross References
XREF:Proverbs 17:18 A man lacking in sense pledges And becomes guarantor in the presence of his neighbor. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 22:26 Be not thou [one] of them that {p} strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.
(p) Who rashly put themselves in danger for others, as in Pr 6:2.
MHC: 22:26,27. Every man ought to be just to himself, and his family; those are not so, who, by folly or other carelessness, waste what they have. 28. We are taught not to trespass on another man's right. And it is hard to find a truly industrious man. Such a man will rise. Seest thou a man diligent in the business of religion? He is likely to excel. Let us then be diligent in God's work.
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