1My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
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A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)It is the excellency of the word of God that it teaches us not only divine wisdom for another world, but human prudence for this world, that we may order our affairs with discretion; and this is one good rule, To avoid suretiship, because by it poverty and ruin are often brought into families, which take away that comfort in relations which he had recommended in the foregoing chapter. 1. We must l…
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