Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take 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?
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?
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 Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens. 27 If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee? 28 Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 20:16
Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.
Exodus 22:26-27
if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him:
2 Kings 4:1
And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, 'Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.'