He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
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...
(Compare Pro 6:1). suretiship--(Compare Margin), the actors put for the action, which may be lawfully hated.
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...