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Ecclesiastes 11:15
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Affligetur malo qui fidem facit pro extraneo ; qui autem cavet laqueos securus erit.
Affligetur malo qui fidem facit pro extraneo;
qui autem cavet laqueos securus erit.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
that is surety: Proverbs 6:1-5, Proverbs 17:18, Proverbs 20:16, Proverbs 22:26, Proverbs 22:27
smart: Heb. be sore broken
suretiship: Heb. those that strike hands
Reciprocal: Job 17:3 - put me
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart [for it],.... Or in "breaking shall be broken" q, ruined and undone; he engaging or becoming a bondsman for one whose circumstances he knew not; and these being bad bring a load upon him, such an heavy debt as crushes him to pieces. Mr. Henry observes that our Lord Jesus Christ became a surety for us when we were strangers, and he smarted for it, he was bruised and wounded for our sins; but then he knew our circumstances, and what the consequence would be, and became a surety on purpose to pay the whole debt and set us free; which he was capable of doing: without being broken or becoming a bankrupt himself; for he was not broken, nor did he fail, Isaiah 42:4. Jarchi's note is,
"the wicked shall be broken, to whose heart idolatry is sweet;''
and he that hateth suretyship is sure; or those "that strike" r, that is, with the hand, used in suretyship; see Proverbs 6:1; such an one is safe from coming into trouble by such means. The Targum is,
"and hates those that place their hope in God.''
q רע ירוע "frangendo frangetur", Michaelis; so Pagninus and others. r תוקעים "complodentes", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius "defigentes", Mercerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See the marginal reference. The play upon “sure” and “suretiship” in the the King James Version (though each word is rightly rendered) has nothing corresponding to it in the Hebrew, and seems to have originated in a desire to give point to the proverb.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 11:15. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it] He shall find evil upon evil in it. See on Proverbs 6:1.
