Proverbs 22:26
in Proverbs 22Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Be thou not one of them that strike hands, Or of them that are sureties for debts.
KJV
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
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This verse in Proverbs 22
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Do not make friends with an angry man
on Proverbs 22:24-27
The warning against making friends with an angry or hot-tempered man concerns chosen company, and the danger is contagion. Giving pledges and putting up security for debts repeats the book's recurring warning. The consequence is plain, the debtor's last possession seized for a debt he never ran up himself.
This site's exposition
Do not be one who gives pledges
Putting up security for another man's debts is a warning the book gives more than once. The pledge makes one man answer for a debt that another ran up. Verse 27 shows how far that loss can reach.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Do not be with those who bind their hands, etc. Do not be with those who, though free and keeping themselves available to themselves, bind themselves in the care of the salvation of the wicked, promising to render an account to the Lord for their …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Be not thou one of them that strike hands,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
That strike hands - See on Pro 6:1 (note); Pro 11:15 (note).
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Strike hands - i. e., Bind themselves as surety for what another owes (compare the margin reference).
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַל־ | ʾal- | may not | H408 → | 724 times |
| תְּהִ֥י | tehi | you be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| בְתֹֽקְעֵי־ | vetokeei- | among [those who] strike | H8628 → | 69 times |
| כָ֑ף | khaf | <of> a palm | H3709 → | 192 times |
| בַּ֝עֹרְבִ֗ים | baorevim | among <the> [those who] stand surety for | H6148 → | 22 times |
| מַשָּׁאֽוֹת׃ | mashaot | debts | H4859 → |
אַל־may not
ʾal-H408 →724 times
תְּהִ֥יyou be
tehiH1961 →3559 times
בְתֹֽקְעֵי־among [those who] strike
vetokeei-H8628 →69 times
כָ֑ף<of> a palm
khafH3709 →192 times
בַּ֝עֹרְבִ֗יםamong <the> [those who] stand surety for
baorevimH6148 →22 times
מַשָּׁאֽוֹת׃debts
mashaotH4859 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Proverbs 27:13Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
it leads to
- Proverbs 20:16
Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Proverbs 6:1–4
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,
- Exodus 22:26
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
- Proverbs 20:16
Through
Proverbs 17:18A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.
it leads to
- Proverbs 22:26–27
Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
Reached by 3 separate 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,
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Proverbs 11:15
He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
- Proverbs 22:16
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
- Proverbs 22:26–27
Through
Proverbs 11:15He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
it leads to
- Proverbs 17:18
A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.
- Proverbs 17:18
Where this verse is studied
About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).