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Proverbs 22:27
If thou hast nothing to paye, why causest thou that he should take thy bed from vnder thee?
Proverbs 22:27 · Geneva Bible
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Proverbs 22:27 in other translations
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
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In context
24 Make no friendship with an angrie man, neither goe with the furious man,
25 Least thou learne his wayes, and receiue destruction to thy soule.
26 Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts.
27 If thou hast nothing to paye, why causest thou that he should take thy bed from vnder thee?
28 Thou shalt not remooue the ancient bounds which thy fathers haue made.
29 Thou seest that a diligent man in his businesse standeth before Kings, and standeth not before the base sort.
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