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Proverbs 22:26

American Standard Version

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

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Proverbs 22:26 in other translations

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

Proverbs 22:26 · World English Bible

Proverbs 22:26 in context

  1. 24Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:
  2. 25Lest thou learn his ways, And get a snare to thy soul.
  3. 26Be thou not one of them that strike hands, Or of them that are sureties for debts.
  4. 27If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
  5. 28Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.