Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
Berean Standard Bible
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 one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.
28Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
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 →