Proverbs 22:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁶ Be not one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Be not one of those who strike hands and pledge themselves, or of those who become security for another's debts.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²⁶ Don’t shake hands to guarantee a loan.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Do not be willing to be with those who certify with their hands, and who offer themselves as a guarantee against debts.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:

Proverbs 22:26 Cross References

Proverbs 11:15

He who gives surety for a stranger will smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure.

Proverbs 17:18

A man without sense gives a pledge, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.

Proverbs 27:13

Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.