Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

Here we are taught, 1. In general, that we may not use our estates as we will (he that gave them to us has reserved to himself a power to direct us how we shall use them, for they are not our own; we are but stewards), and further that God in his law consults our interests and teaches us that charity which begins at...

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Reformed @jfbcommentary

(Compare Pro 6:1). suretiship--(Compare Margin), the actors put for the action, which may be lawfully hated.

Keil & Delitzsch Lutheran @keilanddelitzsch

Pro 11:15 There follow now two proverbs regarding kindness which brings injury and which brings honour: It fares ill, nothing but ill, with one who is surety for another; But he who hateth suretyship remaineth in quietness. More closely to the original: It goes ill with him; for the proverb is composed as if the writer had before his eyes a definite person, whom one...