Proverbs 11:15

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it,.... Or in "breaking shall be broken" (q), ruined and undone; he engaging or becoming a bondsman for one whose circumstances he knew not; and these…

See the marginal reference. The play upon “sure” and “suretiship” in the the King James Version (though each word is rightly rendered) has nothing corresponding to it in the Hebrew, and seems to have…

Here we are taught, 1. In general, that we may not use our estates as we will (he that gave them to us has reserved to himself a power to direct us how we shall use them, for they are not our own; we…

smartfor it] Both A.V. and R.V. add in the marg. "Heb. shall be sore broken."

suretiship Three entirely different Heb. words in this verse are rendered "surety," "suretiship," "sure." The first…