My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor or entered into an agreement with 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 child, if you have put up security for a friend’s debt or agreed to guarantee the debt of 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,

One without sense enters an agreement and puts up security for his friend.

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

If someone puts up security for a stranger, he will suffer for it, but the one who hates such agreements is protected.

Take his garment, for he has put up security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for foreigners.

I will be responsible for him. You can hold me personally accountable! If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, I will be guilty before you forever.

Take his garment, for he has put up security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for foreigners.

And if he has wronged you in any way, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it— not to mention to you that you owe me even your very self.

Your servant became accountable to my father for the boy, saying,‘ If I do not return him to you, I will always bear the guilt for sinning against you, my father.’Now please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers.

Accept my pledge! Put up security for me. Who else will be my sponsor?

Because of this oath, Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.