Proverbs 22:27
If you lack the means to pay, 1 what could stop someone from taking away your bed from under you? 1
Unlocked Literal 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 strikes hands in making a pledge, 1 or who puts up security for debts. 1
28Do not remove the ancient boundary stone 1 that your fathers have set. 1
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets came crying to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take my two children to be 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 →