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Pro_17:18 A man void of understanding striketh hands, [and] becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
Ver. 18. A man void of understanding striketh hands.] Of the folly and misery of rash suretyship, see Pro_6:1-3 {See Trapp on "Pro_6:1"} {See Trapp on "Pro_6:2"} {See Trapp on "Pro_6:3"}
In the presence of his friend.] Or, Before his friend; that is, before his friend do it, who was better able, and more obliged. Thus like a woodcock he puts his neck into the gin, his foot into the stocks as the drunkard; and then hath time enough to come in with the fool’s "Had I wist," and to say, as the lion did when taken in the toil, Si praescivissem: If I had foreseen this. But why should there he among men any such Epimetheus, such a post master, an after wit?