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

不要与人击掌，不要为欠债的作保。

不要为人击掌担保，也不要为债务作保。

不要为人击掌担保，也不要为债务作保。

不要为人击掌作保，不要为欠债的抵押。

不要替别人击掌担保，也不可为欠债的作保证人。

不要成为击掌作保的人，也不要为债务担保；

不要與人擊掌，不要為欠債的作保。

不要為人擊掌擔保，也不要為債務作保。

不要為人擊掌擔保，也不要為債務作保。

不要為人擊掌作保，不要為欠債的抵押。

不要替別人擊掌擔保，也不可為欠債的作保證人。

不可做個擊掌擔保的人；也不可為債務作保；

不要成為擊掌作保的人，也不要為債務擔保；

勿為人拊掌、勿為債作保、

有人負金、毋為中保。

爾勿擊掌、擊掌亦作保之義勿為人所負之債作保、

Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts;

Don’t agree to pay for what someone else owes. And don’t agree to pay their bills for them.

Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.

Don’t be one of those who enter agreements, who put up security for loans.

Do not be among those who shake hands, Among those who become guarantors for debts.

Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge, One of those who is surety for debts;

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

Don’t be one of those who enter agreements, who put up security for loans.

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

Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.

Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

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

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

My child, if you have put up security for a friend’s debt or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger—if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said—follow my advice and save yourself, for you have placed yourself at your friend’s mercy. Now swallow your pride; go and beg to have your name erased.Don’t put it off; do it now! Don’t rest until you do.Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net.

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