“My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 6 contains 35 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.