Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
for if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from under thee.
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.
International Standard Version
If you don't have the ability to pay, why should your very bed 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?
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
Shalam
Laqach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 22:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Living With Your Neighbor
26 Be not thou one of them that bind their hand upon promise, and are surety for debt; 27 for if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from under thee. 28 Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 20:16
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and take a pledge of him for the unknown man's sake.
Exodus 22:26-27
If thou take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, see that thou deliver it unto him again by that the sun go down.
2 Kings 4:1
And there cried a certain woman of the wives of the children of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, "Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD. And the creditor is come to fetch my two sons, to be his bondmen."