Proverbs 22:27
For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there, that he should take the covering from thy bed?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
In Context
26Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:
28Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to 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 →