Strike hands - that is, bind themselves as surety for what another owes (compare the margin reference).

Be not thou one of them that strike hands. —Another warning against suretyship. (See above, on Proverbs 6:1.)

Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands
Or "among them" ^F13 , of the number of them, that do as they …

Every man ought to be just to himself and his family; those are not just who, by folly or other carelessness, waste what they have.