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25 Otherwise you may learn his ways[a]
    and find yourself entangled in a snare.
26 Do not be one of those who give pledges
    and become surety for another’s debts.
27 For if you have no means of paying,
    your bed will be taken from under you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:25 May learn his ways: i.e., the ways of the wicked, a theme repeated by Paul: “Bad company corrupts good morals” (1 Cor 15:33).