Verse 18

The one who lacks sense strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 11:15 : 15 The one who has put up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands is secure.
• Prov 6:1-5 : 1 Admonitions and Warnings against Dangerous and Destructive Acts My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, if you have become a guarantor for a stranger, 2 if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken, 3 then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor. 4 Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. 5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
• Prov 20:16 : 16 Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.
• Prov 22:16 : 16 The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.
• Prov 22:26-27 : 26 Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts. 27 If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!