Proverbs 6:1 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 6:1

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;

KJV

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

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Commentary

3 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Pastoral Rule 3.4 (604)

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, and art snared with the words of thy mouth, and art taken with thine own speeches. For to be surety for a friend is to take charge of the soul of another on the surety of one's own behaviour. Whence also the hand is stricken with a stranger, because the mind is bound with the care of a responsibility which before was not.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Stricken thy hand - Obliged thyself by giving thine hand, as the custom then was in such cases. With - With the creditor, whom he calls a stranger, because the usurers in Israel, who lent money to others, upon condition of paying use for it, were either Heathens, or were reputed as bad as Heathens, because this practice was forbidden by God's law, Deut. xxiii, 19.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Surety - The “pledge,” or security for payment, which, for example, David was to bring back from his brothers 1Sa 17:18. So the word was used in the primitive trade transactions of the early Israelites. In the warnings against this suretyship, in the Book of Proverbs, we may trace the influence of contact with the Phoenicians. The merchants of Tyre and Zidon seem to have discovered the value of credit as an element of wealth.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּ֭נִי	Be.ni	O son my	H1121 →
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
עָרַ֣בְתָּ	'a.Rav.ta	you have stood surety	H6148 →
לְרֵעֶ֑ךָ	le.re.'E.kha	for fellow-citizen your	H7453 →
תָּקַ֖עְתָּ	ta.Ka'.ta	you have struck	H8628 →
לַזָּ֣ר	la.Zar	for the stranger	H2114 →
כַּפֶּֽיךָ׃	ka.Pei.kha	palms your	H3709 →

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

The walk

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 11:15
  He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
  Reached by 3 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,
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 22:26–27
  Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- 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 2 independent paths from here.
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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Exodus 22:26–27
  If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
Through
Proverbs 22:26
Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
leads to
- Proverbs 17:18
  A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Genesis 43:9
I will guarantee his safety. You may hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back and set him before you, then may I bear the guilt before you all my life.
leads to
- Genesis 42:37
  Then Reuben said to his father, “You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him.”

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Proverbs

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Proverbs