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Don`t you be one of those who strike hands, Of those who are collateral for debts.
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A Warning Against Co-Signing
All commentators agree that “striking hands” is the ancient practice of becoming a surety, or co-signing for another person's debt. Scholars like Albert Barnes and John Gill clarify that this verse is a direct and practical warning against taking on such financial risks for others, a theme repeated elsewhere in Proverbs (e.g., 6:1, 17:18).
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Strike hands - that is, bind themselves as surety for what another owes (compare the margin reference).
19th Century
Anglican
Be not thou one of them that strike hands. —Another warning against suretyship. (See above, on Proverbs 6:1.)
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands Or "among them" F13 , of the number of them, that do as they …
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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.
