My child, if you have put up security for a friend’s debt or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger—

我儿，你若为朋友作保，替外人击掌，

我儿啊，你若为朋友担保，替陌生人击掌，

我儿啊，你若为朋友担保，替陌生人击掌，

孩子啊，你若为邻人作保，为外人击掌立约；

我儿，如果你作朋友的保证人，替外人击掌担保；

我儿啊，如果你为邻人作保，为别人击掌起誓，

我兒，你若為朋友作保，替外人擊掌，

我兒啊，你若為朋友擔保，替陌生人擊掌，

我兒啊，你若為朋友擔保，替陌生人擊掌，

孩子啊，你若為鄰人作保，為外人擊掌立約；

我兒，如果你作朋友的保證人，替外人擊掌擔保；

弟子啊，你若為朋友作保，替陌生人擊掌擔保，

我兒啊，如果你為鄰人作保，為別人擊掌起誓，

我子、爾若為鄰作保、為人拊掌、

爾小子、如爾為人中保、已有成言、自貽伊戚、

我子、如爾為友作保、或為外人之事擊掌、擊掌亦作保之義

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,

My son, don’t promise to pay for what your neighbor owes. Don’t agree to pay a stranger’s bill.

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor or entered into an agreement with a stranger,

My son, if you have become a guarantor for your neighbor, Or have given a handshake for a stranger,

My son, if you become surety for your friend, If you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,

My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor or entered into an agreement with a stranger,

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend,[ if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, and have become a guarantor for a stranger,

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

It’s poor judgment to guarantee another person’s debt or put up security for a friend.

Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt or put up security for someone else.

There’s danger in putting up security for a stranger’s debt; it’s safer not to guarantee another person’s debt.

Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt. Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.

I personally guarantee his safety. You may hold me responsible if I don’t bring him back to you. Then let me bear the blame forever.

Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt. Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.

If he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to me.I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it. And I won’t mention that you owe me your very soul!

My lord, I guaranteed to my father that I would take care of the boy. I told him,‘ If I don’t bring him back to you, I will bear the blame forever.’“ So please, my lord, let me stay here as a slave instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

“ You must defend my innocence, O God, since no one else will stand up for me.

Because of this oath, Jesus is the one who guarantees this better covenant with God.