Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing to pay, || Why does he take your bed from under you?
Literal Standard Version
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 among those striking hands, || Among sureties [for] burdens.
28Do not remove a border of ancient times, || That your fathers have made.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets has cried to Elisha, saying, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you have known that your servant was fearing YHWH, and the lender has come to take my two children to himself for servants.”
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 →