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Selected Verse: Proverbs 11:15 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 11:15 |
Strong Concordance |
He that is surety [06148] for a stranger [02114] shall smart [07321] [07451] for it: and he that hateth [08130] suretiship [08628] is sure [0982]. |
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King James |
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Compare Pro 6:1).
suretiship--(Compare Margin), the actors put for the action, which may be lawfully hated. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| See the marginal reference. The play upon "sure" and "suretiship" in the the King James Version (though each word is rightly rendered) has nothing corresponding to it in the Hebrew, and seems to have originated in a desire to give point to the proverb. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
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 assails when he for whom he became security has not kept within the limits of the performance that was due. Regarding ערב with the accus. of the person: to represent one as a surety for him, and זר as denoting the other (the stranger), vid., at Pro 6:1. The meaning of רע ירוע is seen from Pro 20:16. ירוע is, like Pro 13:20, the fut. Niph. of רעע, or of רוּע = רעע, after the forms ימּול, יעור (Olsh. 265e). The added רעע has, like עריה, Hab 3:9, the same function as the inf. absol. (intensivus); but as the infin. form רע could only be inf. constru. after the form שׁך, Jer 5:26, the infinitive absol. must be רוע: Thus רע is an accus., or what is the same, an adverbial adj.: he is badly treated (maltreated) in a bad way, for one holds him to his words and, when he cannot or will not accomplish that which is due in the room of him for whom he is bail, arrests him. He, on the contrary, who hates תוקעים has good rest. The persons of such as become surety by striking the hands cannot be meant, but perhaps people thus becoming surety by a hand-stroke - such sureties, and thus such suretyship, he cannot suffer; תוקעים approaches an abstract "striking hands," instead of "those who strike hands" in connection with this שׂנא, expressing only a strong impossibility, as חבלים, Zac 2:7, 14, means uniting together in the sense of combination. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it - He shall find evil upon evil in it. See on Pro 6:1 (note). |
1 My son [01121], if thou be surety [06148] for thy friend [07453], if thou hast stricken [08628] thy hand [03709] with a stranger [02114],
7 Deliver [04422] thyself, O [01945] Zion [06726], that dwellest [03427] with the daughter [01323] of Babylon [0894].
26 For among my people [05971] are found [04672] wicked [07563] men: they lay wait [07789], as he that setteth [07918] snares [03353]; they set [05324] a trap [04889], they catch [03920] men [0582].
9 Thy bow [07198] was made quite [06181] naked [05783], according to the oaths [07621] of the tribes [04294], even thy word [0562]. Selah [05542]. Thou didst cleave [01234] the earth [0776] with rivers [05104].
20 He that walketh [01980] with wise [02450] men shall be wise [02449]: but a companion [07462] of fools [03684] shall be destroyed [07321].
16 Take [03947] his garment [0899] that is surety [06148] for a stranger [02114]: and take a pledge [02254] of him for a strange woman [05237].
1 My son [01121], if thou be surety [06148] for thy friend [07453], if thou hast stricken [08628] thy hand [03709] with a stranger [02114],
1 My son [01121], if thou be surety [06148] for thy friend [07453], if thou hast stricken [08628] thy hand [03709] with a stranger [02114],