Proverbs 22:26
“Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.”
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Proverbs 22:26 Context
24Make no friendship with an angrie man: and with a furious man thou shalt not goe; 25Lest thou learne his wayes, and get a snare to thy soule. 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 vnder thee? 28Remoue not the ancient land marke, which thy fathers haue set.
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Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.
- King James Version
Do not be among those who give pledges, Among those who become guarantors for debts.
- New American Standard Version (1995)