Proverbs 22:27
If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
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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 you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.
28Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be 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 →