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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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Matthew Henry

(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...

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