Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger,
New American Standard Bible
Have
King James Version
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Holman Bible
or entered into an agreement with
International Standard Version
My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor, if you have agreed to a deal with a stranger,
A Conservative Version
My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbor, if thou have struck thy hands for a stranger,
American Standard Version
My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;
Amplified
If you have given your pledge for [the debt of] a stranger or another [outside your family],
Bible in Basic English
My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,
Darby Translation
My son, if thou hast become surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand for a stranger,
Julia Smith Translation
My son, if thou becamest surety for thy friend, thou didst strike thy hands for a stranger;
King James 2000
My son, if you become surety for your friend, if you have struck your hand with a stranger,
Modern King James verseion
My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you struck your palms with a stranger,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My son, if thou be surety for thy neighbour, thou hast fastened thine hand with another man:
NET Bible
My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, and have become a guarantor for a stranger,
New Heart English Bible
My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;
The Emphasized Bible
My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbour, - have struck for a stranger thy hands,
Webster
My son, if thou art surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
World English Bible
My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;
Youngs Literal Translation
My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,
Themes
Business life » Debts » Suretyship, (indorsement), the dangers of
Credit system » Debts » Suretyship, (indorsement), the dangers of
Creditors » Might demand » Security of others
Hand » Clasping of, in token of contract
Interlinear
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Rea`
Taqa`
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against Pledges
1 My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger, 2 [if] you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, [if] you are caught by the sayings of your mouth,
Cross References
Proverbs 11:15
He will suffer trouble when he loans to a stranger, but he who refuses a pledge is safe.
Proverbs 17:18
A person who lacks {sense} {pledges}; he becomes security before his neighbor.
Proverbs 22:26
Do not be with those who {give a pledge} {by becoming} surety.
Job 17:3
Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who [is] he [who] will give security for my hand?
Proverbs 20:16
Take his garment, for he has given security [to] a stranger, and on behalf of a foreigner--take it as pledge.
Proverbs 27:13
Take his garment, for he gives surety [to] a stranger, and to {an adulteress}--[so] take his pledge.
Genesis 43:9
I myself will be surety for him. You may seek him from my hand. If I do not bring him back to you and present him before you, then I will stand guilty before you forever.
Genesis 44:32-33
For your servant is pledged as surety for the boy by my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, then I shall be culpable to my father forever.
Hebrews 7:22
by so much more Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.