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Proverbs 6:1

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

KJV

Fili mi, si spoponderis pro amico tuo, defixisti apud extraneum manum tuam :

Vulgate

Υἱέ, ἐὰν ἐγγυήσῃ σὸν φίλον, παραδώσεις σὴν χεῖρα ἐχθρῷ.

LXX

My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;

ASV

בְּ֭נִ/י אִם עָרַ֣בְתָּ לְ/רֵעֶ֑/ךָ תָּקַ֖עְתָּ לַ/זָּ֣ר כַּפֶּֽי/ךָ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
הוּ
hv
noun · 186×
זָ֑ר
zr
verb · 76×
כַּ֥ף
kp
noun · 191×
עָ֣רַב
'rb
verb · 23×
תָקְע֖וּ
tq'v
verb · 70×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Thess 2:11 — As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
  • Gen 43:9 — I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
  • Gen 44:32 — For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
  • Heb 7:22 — By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
  • Isa 2:6 — Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers
  • Job 17:3 — Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
  • Matt 5:25 — Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into pris
  • Phlm 1:18 — If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;
  • Prov 11:15 — He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
  • Prov 11:15 — He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
  • Prov 17:18 — A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
  • Prov 17:18 — A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
  • Prov 20:16 — Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
  • Prov 22:26 — Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
  • Prov 22:26 — Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
  • Prov 27:13 — Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
  • Prov 27:13 — Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.