Proverbs 22:27 - Easy To Read Version

²⁷ If you can’t pay his debt, then you will lose everything you have. Why should you lose the bed you sleep on?

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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 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 4:1

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!”

Proverbs 20:16

You will lose your shirt if you make yourself responsible for another man’s debts.