Proverbs 22:27
If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
In Context
26Be thou not one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts:
28Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead: and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.
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 →