Proverbs 22:27

Proverbs 22:27 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
• New International Version (NIV)if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.
• English Standard Version (ESV)If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
• New King James Version (NKJV)If you have nothing with which to pay, Why should he take away your bed from under you?

Context of Proverbs 22:27

25or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul. 26Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt or put up security for someone else. If you can’t pay it, even your bed will be snatched from under you. 28Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers set up by previous generations. 29Do you see any truly competent workers? They will serve kings rather than working for ordinary people.

Proverbs 22:27 word by word

אִם־אֵֽין־לְךָ֥ לְשַׁלֵּ֑ם לָ֥מָּה יִקַּ֥ח מִ֝שְׁכָּבְךָ֗ מִתַּחְתֶּֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• If thou hast nothing to payשָׁלֵםshâlam · to completeH7999
• why should he take awayלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• thy bedמִשְׁכָּבmishkâb · bedH4904

Cross-references for Proverbs 22:27

• Proverbs 20:16Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt. Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.
• Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s cloak as security for a loan, you must return it before sunset.
• 2 Kings 4:1One day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to Elisha and cried out, “My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the Lord. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”

Commentaries on Proverbs 22:27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27If thou hast nothing to pay - Should any man give security for more than he is worth? If he does, is it not a fraud on the very face of the transaction? Why should he take away thy bed from under thee? - The creditor will not pursue the debtor whom he knows to be worth nothing; but he will sue the bail or bondsman. And why shouldst thou put thyself in such circumstances as to expose thyself to the loss even of thy bed?Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 27He - i. e., The man to whom the surety has been given. The practice of distraining for payment of a debt, seems, though prohibited Exodus 22:27, to have become common.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 26-27Verses 26-27 Every man ought to be just to himself, and his family; those are not so, who, by folly or other carelessness, waste what they have.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26-27This proverb's message is also found in Proverbs 6:1–5; 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 27:13.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 26-2726-27. (Compare Pr 6:1; 17:18).Read the comment

Topics related to Proverbs 22:27

• Bed
• Creditor
• Friendship
• Justice
• Pawn
• Property
• Prudence

In the dictionaries

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• Proverbs, the Book of
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• Wisdom

Commentaries on Proverbs 22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings