Proverbs 22:27

For if you do not have the means to restore, what reason should there be for him to take the covering from your bed?

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In The King James Version

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

In Context

26Do not be willing to be with those who certify with their hands, and who offer themselves as a guarantee against debts.

28Do not cross beyond the ancient limits that your fathers have set.

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Cross References

2 Kings 4:1Now a certain woman, from the wives of the prophets, cried out to Elisha, saying: “My husband, your servant, is dead. And you know that your servant was one who fears the Lord. And behold, a creditor has arrived, so that he may take away my two sons to serve him.”

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:27-28

26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. 27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? We have here, as often before, a caution against suretiship, as a thing both imprudent and unjust. 1. We must not associate ourselves, nor contract an intimacy, with men of broken fortunes, and reputations, who need and will urge their friends to be bound for them, that they may cheat their neighbours to feed their lusts, and by keeping up a little… Read the whole commentary →

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