Proverbs 22:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Proverbs 22:26 —

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Proverbs 11:15
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Proverbs 17:18
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
Proverbs 6:1-5
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, …
Proverbs 27:13
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 26-27)

We have here, as often before, a caution against suretiship, as a thing both imprudent and unjust. 1. We must not associate ourselves, nor contract an intimacy, with men of broken fortunes, and reputations, who need and will urge their friends to be bound for them, that they may cheat their neighbours to feed their lusts, and by keeping up a little longer may do the more damage at last to those th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26-27. (Compare Pr 6:1; 17:18).