Verse 15

Whoever puts up security for a stranger will suffer harm, but whoever hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 17:18 : 18 A person who lacks sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for their neighbor.
  • Prov 20:16 : 16 Take a garment as security from one who guarantees a stranger's debt; hold it in pledge if it is for a foreign woman.
  • Prov 22:26-27 : 26 Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge, or who puts up security for debts. 27 If you lack the means to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
  • Prov 6:1-5 : 1 My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge with a stranger, 2 you have been trapped by the words of your mouth, caught by the words of your mouth. 3 So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have come into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your case with your neighbor. 4 Do not allow sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. 5 Free yourself like a gazelle from the trap, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.