Proverbs 11:15 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 11:15

He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; But he that hateth suretyship is secure.

KJV

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
רַע־	ra'-	harm	H7451 →
יֵ֭רוֹעַ	Ye.ro.a'	he is harmed	H7489 →
כִּי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
עָ֣רַב	'A.rav	he stood surety for	H6148 →
זָ֑ר	Zar	a stranger	H2114 →
וְשֹׂנֵ֖א	ve.so.Ne'	and [one who] hates	H8130 →
תֹקְעִ֣ים	to.ke.'Im	those striking hands	H8628 →
בּוֹטֵֽחַ׃	bo.Te.ach	[is] secure	H982 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 17:18
A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.
leads to
- Proverbs 22:26–27
  Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 6:1–5
  My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,
- Proverbs 20:16
  Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
- Proverbs 22:16
  Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
Through
Proverbs 20:16
Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
leads to
- Proverbs 27:13
  Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
- Exodus 22:26–27
  If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
- Proverbs 23:27
  For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
- Proverbs 7:10
  Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Proverbs

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Proverbs