Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
If you don't have the ability to pay, why should your very bed be taken from under you?
New American Standard Bible
Why should he
King James Version
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Holman Bible
even your bed will be taken from under you.
A Conservative Version
If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
American Standard Version
If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Amplified
If you have nothing with which to pay [another’s debt when he defaults],
Why should his creditor take your bed from under you?
Bible in Basic English
If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.
Darby Translation
if thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Julia Smith Translation
If not to thee to requite, why shall he take thy bed from under thee?
King James 2000
If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
Lexham Expanded Bible
If there is nothing for you to pay, why will he take your bed from under you?
Modern King James verseion
If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
for if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from under thee.
NET Bible
If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!
New Heart English Bible
If you do not have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
The Emphasized Bible
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should one take away thy bed from under thee?
Webster
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?
Youngs Literal Translation
If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?
Themes
Bed » Exempt from execution for debt
Beds » Of the poor often sold for debt
Interlinear
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Laqach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 22:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Living With Your Neighbor
26 Don't be one of those who make promises to guarantee loans for debts. 27 If you don't have the ability to pay, why should your very bed be taken from under you? 28 Don't remove an ancient boundary stone that was set up by your ancestors.
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Cross References
Proverbs 20:16
Take the garment of anyone who puts up collateral for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for an unfamiliar woman.
Exodus 22:26-27
If you take your neighbor's coat as collateral, you are to return it to him by sunset,
2 Kings 4:1
Now there happened to be a certain woman who had been the wife of a member of the Guild of Prophets. She cried out to Elisha, "My husband who served you has died, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. But a creditor has come to take away my children into indentured servitude!"