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Proverbs 22:26
Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts.
Proverbs 22:26 · Geneva Bible
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Proverbs 22:26 in other translations
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.
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In context
23 For the Lord will defende their cause, and spoyle the soule of those that spoyle them.
24 Make no friendship with an angrie man, neither goe with the furious man,
25 Least thou learne his wayes, and receiue destruction to thy soule.
26 Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts.
27 If thou hast nothing to paye, why causest thou that he should take thy bed from vnder thee?
28 Thou shalt not remooue the ancient bounds which thy fathers haue made.
29 Thou seest that a diligent man in his businesse standeth before Kings, and standeth not before the base sort.
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