Proverbs 22:27
If thou hast nothing with which to pay, 1 why should he take away thy mishkav (bed) from under thee? 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
In Context
28Remove not the gevul olam (ancient landmark), 1 which avoteicha have set. 1
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1Now there cried out a certain isha of the nashim of the Bnei HaNevi'im unto Elishah, saying, Thy eved my ish is dead; and thou knowest that thy eved did fear Hashem: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two yeladim to be avadim (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 →