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Proverbs 22:26

World English Bible

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

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Proverbs 22:26 in other translations

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

Proverbs 22:26 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 22:26 in context

  1. 24Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man,
    and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
  2. 25lest you learn his ways,
    and ensnare your soul.
  3. 26Don’t you be one of those who strike hands,
    of those who are collateral for debts.
  4. 27If you don’t have means to pay,
    why should he take away your bed from under you?
  5. 28Don’t move the ancient boundary stone
    which your fathers have set up.