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To: T Minus Four

Job 17:3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?

Job 17:4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].

Pro 22:26 Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.


431 posted on 03/23/2011 7:59:49 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)
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To: editor-surveyor

Handshakes are inherently evil now? Is this a joke?

If you had quoted the verse from Proverbs in context, the actual meaning would be apparent:

” 26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?”

So, clearly, the proverb is saying to not to take a debt upon yourself with only your handshake as collateral. For, if you can’t repay it, then the debtor will make you destitute.

It’s disturbing to me that you could even try to make something like a handshake, which is an outward expression, into something evil in and of itself. Our righteousness is based on inward things, not on outward things.


442 posted on 03/24/2011 12:03:23 PM PDT by Boogieman (")
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