Proverbs 22:27
If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
In Context
26Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties [for] burdens.
28Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, 'Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him 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 →