Proverbs 22:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁷ If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ If thou hast nothing to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ If you have nothing with which to pay, why should he take your bed from under you?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Common English Bible

²⁷ If you can’t repay, why should they be able to take your bed from you?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ For if you do not have the means to restore, what reason should there be for him to take the covering from your bed?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there, that he should take the covering from thy bed?

Proverbs 22:27 Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Proverbs 20:16

Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.