Proverbs 22:27 - Easy To Read Version If you can’t pay his debt, then you will lose everything you have. Why should you lose the bed you sleep on? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If thou hast nothing to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you have nothing with which to pay, why should he take your bed from under you? American Standard Version (1901) If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee? Common English Bible If you can’t repay, why should they be able to take your bed from you? Catholic Public Domain Version 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 For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there, that he should take the covering from thy bed? |
A man from the group of prophets [22] had a wife. {This man died.} His wife cried out to Elisha, “My husband was like a servant to you. Now my husband is dead! You know he honored the Lord. But he owed money to a man. And now that man is coming to take my two boys and make them his slaves!”
You will lose your shirt if you make yourself responsible for another man’s debts.