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Proverbs 22:27
Proverbs 22:27 is verse 27 of Proverbs chapter 22, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
King James Version
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
World English Bible
If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
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Proverbs 22:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
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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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 20:16Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
Exodus 22:27because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
2 Kings 4:1Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”