Proverbs 17:18

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A person who lacks sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for their neighbor.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:15 : 15 Whoever puts up security for a stranger will suffer harm, but whoever hates striking hands in pledge is secure.
  • 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.
  • 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 22:16 : 16 One who oppresses the poor to increase their wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich will both come to poverty.
  • 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?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    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.

  • Prov 17:16-17
    2 verses
    81%

    16 Why should a fool pay for wisdom when he has no intention of understanding it?

    17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

  • Prov 11:15
    79%

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

  • Prov 22:24-27
    4 verses
    77%

    24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, and do not associate with one easily angered.

    25 Or you may learn their ways and set a trap for your soul.

    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?

  • Job 17:3
    77%

    3 Put me in your pledge, O God; who else will strike hands with me in agreement?

  • Prov 18:24
    76%

    24 A person with unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

  • Prov 27:12-14
    3 verses
    75%

    12 The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.

    13 Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for an outsider.

    14 If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.

  • Prov 17:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

    19 Whoever loves transgression loves strife; whoever builds a high gate invites destruction.

    20 A crooked heart will not find good, and the one with a deceitful tongue will fall into trouble.

    21 The one who fathers a fool brings grief; the father of a senseless child has no joy.

  • Prov 20:16
    74%

    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 14:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 The wise fear and turn away from evil, but fools are reckless and overconfident.

    17 A quick-tempered person does foolish things, and one who devises evil is hated.

  • Prov 19:2-4
    3 verses
    72%

    2 Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good, and one who hurries makes wrong choices.

    3 A man’s foolishness twists his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.

    4 Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor person is abandoned by their friends.

  • Prov 11:12
    72%

    12 Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.

  • Prov 27:17
    71%

    17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

  • Job 6:27
    71%

    27 You would even cast lots over the fatherless and barter away your friend.

  • Prov 16:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28 A perverse person spreads conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

    29 A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.

  • Prov 26:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is someone who meddles in a quarrel not their own.

    18 Like a madman who shoots fiery arrows, arrows, and death,

  • Prov 15:21
    70%

    21 Foolishness brings joy to one lacking sense, but a person of understanding walks a straight path.

  • Ezek 17:18
    70%

    18 He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Though he gave his hand in pledge, he did all these things. He will not escape!

  • Prov 29:24
    70%

    24 Whoever partners with a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse but does not testify.

  • Prov 18:6
    70%

    6 A fool's lips lead to strife, and his mouth invites a beating.

  • Prov 19:7
    70%

    7 All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him. He pursues them with words, but they are not there.

  • Prov 25:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18 Like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow is a person who gives false testimony against his neighbor.

    19 Confidence in an unfaithful person in a time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot out of joint.

  • Prov 7:7
    69%

    7 And I saw among the naive ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking understanding.

  • Job 6:14
    69%

    14 To him who is despairing, kindness should come from his friend, or he will forsake the fear of the Almighty.

  • Prov 18:16
    69%

    16 A person's gift opens doors for him and brings him into the presence of the great.

  • Prov 17:9
    69%

    9 Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.

  • Prov 27:10
    69%

    10 Do not abandon your friend or your father's friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in your day of disaster; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

  • Prov 26:6
    69%

    6 Whoever sends a message by the hands of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.

  • Prov 18:2
    69%

    2 A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in revealing his own thoughts.

  • Prov 18:9
    69%

    9 A lazy person in his work is a brother to a destroyer.

  • Exod 22:14
    69%

    14 If the owner is with the animal, the borrower does not need to pay. If it was rented, the payment covers the loss.

  • Prov 17:25
    69%

    25 A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

  • Prov 29:22
    69%

    22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a hot-tempered man commits many transgressions.

  • Prov 25:8
    69%

    8 Do not go hastily to court, lest you do something in the end that leaves you humiliated when your neighbor puts you to shame.