Proverbs 22:26 (BSB)

Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:26

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 22:26-27: 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...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 22:26: Be not thou one of them that strike hands,.... Or "among them" (m), of the number of them, that do as they do, give their hand or their bond for others; he surety for them, as it is explained in the following clause; see Pro 6:1; or of them that are sureties for debts; contracted by others; that engage for the payment of them, in...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 22:26: Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts. (p) Who rashly put themselves in danger for others, as in .
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 22:26-27: Pro 22:26-27 A third distich follows: 26 Be not among those who strike hands, Among those who become surety for loans. 27 If thou hast nothing to pay, Why shall he take away thy bed from under thee? To strike hands is equivalent to, to be responsible to any one for another, to stake one’s goods and honour for him, Pro 6:1; Pro 11:15; Pro...