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Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 6:1-35

Now let us turn to Proverbs, chapter 6. The first part of the Proverbs is exhortation to my son. It's just good fatherly advice to sons. And chapter 6 continues in these exhortations that are opened by the phrase:My son, if you be surety for thy friend, or if you have stricken hands with a stranger, you've become snared with the words of your mouth, you've been taken with the words of your mouth. Now do this, and deliver yourself, my son, when you've come to the hand of your friend; go, and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 6:1-35

Proverbs 6:1 . If thou be surety for thy friend. If charity has gained an ascendancy over the judgment, prepare to perform thy covenant. To aid a friend in poverty is a generous deed, it is lending without hope: but to bind one’s self in cases of speculation may incur a serious loss, without real advantage to another. Proverbs 6:3 . When thou art come into the hand of thy friend. The sense is intricate. The LXX read, When thou art come into the hands of rigorous men for thy friend; go,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:1-5

Proverbs 6:1-5If thou be surety for thy friend.Social suretyshipsThe principles of domestic, social, and political economy in the Bible are far more wise, as well as righteous, than can be found in human book or periodical.I. Suretyship as an evil to be deplored. “If thou be surety”; as if he had said, “It is a sad thing if thou hast.” It is not, however, always an evil. There are two things necessary to render it justifiable.1. The case should be deserving.2. You should be fully competent to... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 6:1

Pro 6:1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, Ver. 1. My son, if thou be surety. ] The wise man, having exhorted his son to marry, rather than burn, and to nourish a family, rather than to haunt harlots’ houses, to the end that he may show himself a good economic, and provide for the comfortable subsistence of wife and children, he bids him here beware - (1.) Of unadvised suretyship; (2.) Of idleness, two great enemies to thrift, without... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 6:2

Pro 6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. Ver. 2. Thou art snared, ] i. e., Endangered to slavery or poverty, or both. Hence the proverb, Sponde, noxa praesto est; Give thy word, and thou art not far from a mischief. Shun, therefore, suretyship, if fairly thou canst, or if not, propound the worst, and undertake for no more than thou canst well perform without thy very great prejudice: ne, ut leo cassibus irretitus dixeris, Si... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 6:1

if thou be: Proverbs 11:15, Proverbs 17:18, Proverbs 20:16, Proverbs 22:26, Proverbs 27:13, Genesis 43:9, Genesis 44:32, Genesis 44:33, Job 17:3, Philemon 1:18, Philemon 1:19, Hebrews 7:22 thou hast: To strike, or join hands, was an ancient form of entering into contracts in all counties and all ages. Reciprocal: Matthew 5:25 - with Luke 12:58 - give 1 Thessalonians 2:11 - as read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 6:2

Proverbs 12:13, Proverbs 18:7 Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 1:16 - mouth Psalms 9:16 - wicked Psalms 59:12 - taken Daniel 6:9 - signed Mark 6:23 - Whatsoever read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 6:1

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,Surety — Rashly, without considering how thou shalt discharge the debt as occasion require. Otherwise suretyship in some cases may be not only lawful, but an act of justice and charity.Stricken thy hand — Obliged thyself by giving thine hand, as the custom then was in such cases.With — With the creditor, whom he calls a stranger, because the usurers in Israel, who lent money to others, upon condition of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 6:1-2

1, 2. If thou be surety It is probable, as suggested by several critics, that אם , ( im,) if, is to be mentally carried forward, not only to the second clause of the first verse, but also to the two clauses of the second verse, the whole of these two verses constituting the protasis, or antecedent member of the sentence, which finds its apodosis, or conclusion, in the third verse. Thy friend Or, neighbour; any one with whom he may have intercourse. Stranger Another person. Some... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 6:1-5

ADMONITIONS REGARDING SURETYSHIP, Proverbs 6:1-5. In order to secure the peace and happiness of married life, which the teacher has just so highly commended, he now cautions his pupil against two evils, which often bring great distress upon families, reducing them to poverty: namely, inconsiderate suretyship and slothfulness. read more