Proverbs 17:18
New International Version
One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for a neighbor.

New Living Translation
It’s poor judgment to guarantee another person’s debt or put up security for a friend.

English Standard Version
One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.

Berean Standard Bible
A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.

King James Bible
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

New King James Version
A man devoid of understanding shakes hands in a pledge, And becomes surety for his friend.

New American Standard Bible
A person lacking in sense shakes hands And becomes guarantor in the presence of his neighbor.

NASB 1995
A man lacking in sense pledges And becomes guarantor in the presence of his neighbor.

NASB 1977
A man lacking in sense pledges, And becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.

Legacy Standard Bible
A man lacking a heart of wisdom strikes his hands in pledge And becomes guarantor in the presence of his neighbor.

Amplified Bible
A man lacking common sense gives a pledge And becomes guarantor [for the debt of another] in the presence of his neighbor.

Christian Standard Bible
One without sense enters an agreement and puts up security for his friend.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
One without sense enters an agreement and puts up security for his friend.

American Standard Version
A man void of understanding striketh hands, And becometh surety in the presence of his neighbor.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A foolish man hands over his bounty which he pledges for his neighbor as security.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A foolish man applauds and rejoices over himself, as he also that becomes surety would make himself responsible for his own friends.

Contemporary English Version
It's stupid to guarantee someone else's loan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A foolish man will clap hands, when he is surety for his friend.

English Revised Version
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his neighbour.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A person without good sense closes a deal with a handshake. He guarantees a loan in the presence of his friend.

Good News Translation
Only someone with no sense would promise to be responsible for someone else's debts.

International Standard Version
A man who lacks sense cosigns a loan, becoming a guarantor for his neighbor.

JPS Tanakh 1917
A man void of understanding is he that striketh hands, And becometh surety in the presence of his neighbour.

Literal Standard Version
A man lacking heart is striking hands, | He becomes a guarantor before his friend.

Majority Standard Bible
A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.

New American Bible
Those without sense give their hands in pledge, becoming surety for their neighbors.

NET Bible
The one who lacks wisdom strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.

New Revised Standard Version
It is senseless to give a pledge, to become surety for a neighbor.

New Heart English Bible
A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

Webster's Bible Translation
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

World English Bible
A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

Young's Literal Translation
A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness
17A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. 18A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor. 19He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his gate high invites destruction.…

Cross References
Proverbs 6:1
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

Proverbs 11:15
He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.

Proverbs 22:26
Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.


Treasury of Scripture

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes surety in the presence of his friend.

void

Proverbs 6:1-5
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, …

Proverbs 11:15
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.

Proverbs 20:16
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

understanding heart

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(18) In the presence of his friend.--Or, With his neighbour. (For the same warning, comp. Proverbs 6:1, sqq.)

Verse 18. - A man void of understanding (Hebrew, heart) striketh hands; clinches the bargain which makes him responsible (see on suretyship, Proverbs 6:1, etc.; and note, Proverbs 20:16). Becometh surety in the presence of his friend; to his friend for some third party. What is here censured is the weakness which, for the sake of perhaps worthless companions, lets itself be hampered and endangered by others' obligations. For, as our adage runs, he that is surety for another is never sure himself. The Septuagint takes the "striking of hands" to be a sign of joy (Vulgate, plaudet manibus), "The foolish man claps (ἐπικροτεῖ) and rejoices in himself, so also he who pledges himself for his friend."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
A man
אָדָ֣ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

lacking
חֲסַר־ (ḥă·sar-)
Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2638: Needy, lacking, in want of

judgment
לֵ֭ב (lêḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

strikes
תּוֹקֵ֣עַ (tō·w·qê·a‘)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 8628: To clatter, slap, clang, to drive, to become bondsman

hands in pledge
כָּ֑ף (kāp̄)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan

and puts up security
עֹרֵ֥ב (‘ō·rêḇ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6148: To braid, intermix, technically, to traffic, give to be security

for
לִפְנֵ֥י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

his neighbor.
רֵעֵֽהוּ׃ (rê·‘ê·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7453: Friend, companion, fellow


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