Proverbs 22:27
for if you can't pay, why should your bed be taken away from beneath you?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
In Context
26Don't shake hands and guarantee someone's debt,
28Don't move ancient boundary markers that your forefathers put in place.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1The wife of one of the sons of the prophets appealed to Elisha, “My husband, your servant, is dead, and you know that he honored the Lord. But now to pay his debts his creditor is coming to take my two sons 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 →