Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor,
Have given a pledge for a stranger,

King James Version

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Holman Bible

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor
or entered into an agreement with a stranger,

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

My son, if you have become surety (guaranteed a debt or obligation) for your neighbor,
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,

Lexham Expanded Bible

My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the 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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
if thou hast stricken
תּקע 
Taqa` 
Usage: 68

כּף 
Kaph 
Usage: 192

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

Against Pledges

1 My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor,
Have given a pledge for a stranger,
2 You are snared with the words of your mouth. You are captured by the words of your mouth!

Cross References

Proverbs 11:15

He that is surety for a stranger will suffer. He that hates being surety is sure.

Proverbs 17:18

A man without understanding shakes hands and becomes surety for his friend.

Proverbs 22:26

Do not give pledges and be guarantors for debts.

Job 17:3

Please guarantee my bail. Who else will guarantee it with a handshake?

Proverbs 20:16

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger and hold it as a pledge for a seductress.

Proverbs 27:13

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take him as pledge as surety for a fornicator.

Genesis 43:9

I guarantee that he will come back. You can hold me responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here in front of you, you can blame me the rest of my life.

Genesis 44:32-33

I promised my father I would bring him home safely. If I do not, I told my father he could blame me the rest of my life.

Hebrews 7:22

Jesus became the guarantee of a better covenant.

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