Proverbs 22:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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?

Proverbs 22:27 Cross References

Proverbs 20:16

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for strangers.

2 Kings 4:1

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons 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 take unto him my two children to be bondmen.