Proverbs 22:26

Amplified Bible

Do not be among those who give pledges [involving themselves in others' finances], Or among those who become guarantors for others' debts.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Don't agree to guarantee another person's debt or put up security for someone else.

Update Bible Version
Don't be one of those that strikes hands, [Or] of those that are sureties for debts.

New Century Version
Don't promise to pay what someone else owes, and don't guarantee anyone's loan.

New English Translation
Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.

Webster's Bible Translation
Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.

World English Bible
Don't you be one of those who strike hands, Of those who are collateral for debts.

English Standard Version
Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nyle thou be with hem that oblischen her hondis, and that proferen hem silf borewis for dettis; for if he hath not wherof he schal restore,

English Revised Version
Be thou not one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts:

Berean Standard Bible
Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

Contemporary English Version

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Don't guarantee to pay someone else's debt.

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

Bible in Basic English
Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

Complete Jewish Bible
Don't be one of those who give pledges, guaranteeing loans made to others;

Darby Translation
Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts:

Easy-to-Read Version
Don't promise to pay someone else's debt.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Be thou not of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts;

King James Version (1611)
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

New Life Bible
Do not be among those who make promises and put themselves up as trust for what others owe.

New Revised Standard
Do not be one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts.

George Lamsa Translation
Do not become a surety for a debt simply because you are ashamed to turn down those who ask you,

Good News Translation

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Don't promise to be responsible for someone else's debts.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Be not of them who strike hands, of them who are sureties for debts:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:

Revised Standard Version
Be not one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Be not thou one of them that binde their hande vpon promise, and are suretie for waightie causes:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Become not surety from respect of a man’s person.

Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t be one of those who enter agreements,who put up security for loans.

Hebrew Names Version
Don't you be one of those who strike hands, Of those who are collateral for debts.

King James Version
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Lexham English Bible
Do not be with those who give a pledge by becoming surety.

Literal Translation
Do not be one of those who strike the hand, those who are sureties for loans.

Young's Literal Translation
Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties [for] burdens.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Be not thou one of them yt bynde ther hande vpo promyse, and are suertie for dett:

THE MESSAGE
3 Don't gamble on the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hocking your house against a lucky chance. The time will come when you have to pay up; you'll be left with nothing but the shirt on your back.

New American Standard Bible
Do not be among those who shake hands, Among those who become guarantors for debts.

New King James Version
Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge, One of those who is surety for debts;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not be among those who give pledges, Among those who become guarantors for debts.

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not be among those who strike hands in pledge,Among those who become guarantors for debts.

Contextual Overview

²⁶Do not be among those who give pledges [involving themselves in others' finances], Or among those who become guarantors for others' debts.²⁷If you have nothing with which to pay [another's debt when he defaults], Why should his creditor take your bed from under you?

Bible Verse Review
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Proverbs 6:1-5, Proverbs 11:15, Proverbs 17:18, Proverbs 27:13

Reciprocal: Job 17:3 - strike Psalms 112:5 - he will Psalms 119:122 - surety Proverbs 20:16 - Take his

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands,.... Or "among them" m, of the number of them, that do as they do, give their hand or their bond for others; he surety for them, as it is explained in the following clause; see Proverbs 6:1;

[or] of them that are sureties for debts; contracted by others; that engage for the payment of them, in case the principal fails: and it is much if persons that keep indifferent company, angry and furious men, who are often in broils and quarrels, and spend their time and substance in strife and contention, are not drawn into engagements of this kind.

m ב "inter", Pagninus, Tigurine version, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Strike hands - i. e., Bind themselves as surety for what another owes (compare the margin reference).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 22:26. That strike hands — See on the parallel texts in the margin.