Bible verse

Proverbs 22:27

If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

Proverbs 22:27 · BSB

Proverbs 22:27 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 22.

23 for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.

24 Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,

25 or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

26 Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

27 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.

29 Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will be stationed in the presence of kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

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Proverbs 22:27 in other translations

KJV

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

ASV

If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

ERV

If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

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