26 Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge

or puts up security for debts;

27 if you lack the means to pay,

your very bed will be snatched from under you.

26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands,

Or of them that are sureties for debts.

27 If thou hast nothing to pay,

Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

26 Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt

or put up security for someone else.

27 If you can’t pay it,

even your bed will be snatched from under you.

26 Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge,

One of those who is surety for debts;

27 If you have nothing with which to pay,

Why should he take away your bed from under you?

26 Don’t promise to pay what someone else owes,

and don’t guarantee anyone’s loan.

27 If you cannot pay the loan,

your own bed may be taken right out from under you.

26 Be thou not one of them that strike hands,

Or of them that are sureties for debts.

27 If thou hast not wherewith to pay,

Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

26 Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts: 27 if thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

26 Do not be ⸤found⸥ among those who make deals with a handshake, 

among those who guarantee other people’s loans. 

27 If you have no money to pay back a loan, 

why should your bed be repossessed? 

26 Don’t be one of those who enter agreements,

who put up security for loans.

27 If you have no money to pay,

even your bed will be taken from under you.

26 Do not be one of those who give pledges,

who become surety for debts.

27 If you have nothing with which to pay,

why should your bed be taken from under you?

26 Do not be with those who give a pledge

by becoming surety.

27 If there is nothing for you to pay,

why will he take your bed from under you?

26 Don’t agree to pay for

what someone else owes.

27 Don’t put up money for him.

If you don’t have the money to pay,

your bed will be taken right out from under you!

26 Do not be among those who give pledges,

Among those who become guarantors for debts.

27 If you have nothing with which to pay,

Why should he take your bed from under you?