I will make sure he is safe. I will be responsible for him. If I don’t bring him back to you, then you can blame me forever.
Proverbs 6:1 - Easy To Read Version My son, don’t make yourself responsible for another person’s debts. Don’t make such deals with friends or with strangers. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, If thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition MY SON, if you have become security for your neighbor, if you have given your pledge for a stranger or another, American Standard Version (1901) My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger; Common English Bible My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor or shake hands in agreement with a stranger, Catholic Public Domain Version My son, if you have taken a pledge on behalf of your friend, then you have bound your hand to an outsider, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger. |
I will make sure he is safe. I will be responsible for him. If I don’t bring him back to you, then you can blame me forever.
“God, show me that you really support me.\par No other person will support me.\par
If you promise to pay another person’s debt, then you will be sorry. You will be safe if you refuse to make those deals.
Only a fool will promise to be responsible for another person’s debts.
You will lose your shirt if you make yourself responsible for another man’s debts.
You will lose your shirt if you make yourself responsible for another man’s debts.
\{If you do,\} then you will be trapped. And you will have trapped yourself with your own words!
\{I say this to you\} because you have left your people. Your people have become filled with the wrong ideas of the people in the east. Your people try to tell the future like the Philistines. {\cf2\super [19]} Your people have completely accepted those strange ideas.
So this means that Jesus is the guarantee of a better agreement {\cf2\super [72]} \{from God to his people\}.