Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.
Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.
For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.
Give now a cry for help; is there anyone who will give you an answer? and to which of the holy ones will you make your prayer?
There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.
Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride.
He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.
A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.
Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:
Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.