Proverbs 22:26

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Cross-reference

Proverbs 6:1-5 gives the same warning against guaranteeing debts, describing the trap of becoming ensnared by your words.

Proverbs 11:15 echoes that putting up security for a stranger brings suffering, reinforcing the advice against pledges.

Proverbs 17:18 equates being a surety with lacking sense — the same warning against cosigning debts.

Proverbs 27:13 advises taking a pledge from a surety — a related but distinct instruction on the same topic.

Psalm 119:122 asks God to be a surety — directly contrasting the human surety warned against here.

Job 17:3 Contrast

Job 17:3 pleads for a surety before God — contrasting with the warning against becoming a surety for others.