Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you. New Living Translation If you can’t pay it, even your bed will be snatched from under you. English Standard Version If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? Berean Standard Bible If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? King James Bible If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? New King James Version If you have nothing with which to pay, Why should he take away your bed from under you? New American Standard Bible If you have nothing with which to repay, Why should he take your bed from under you? NASB 1995 If you have nothing with which to pay, Why should he take your bed from under you? NASB 1977 If you have nothing with which to pay, Why should he take your bed from under you? Legacy Standard Bible If you have nothing with which to pay, Why should he take your bed from under you? Amplified Bible If you have nothing with which to pay [another’s debt when he defaults], Why should his creditor take your bed from under you? Christian Standard Bible If you have nothing with which to pay, even your bed will be taken from under you. Holman Christian Standard Bible If you have no money to pay, even your bed will be taken from under you. American Standard Version If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee? Aramaic Bible in Plain English If you cannot pay, they will take the bed from under you. Brenton Septuagint Translation For if those have not whence to give compensation, they will take the bed that is under thee. Contemporary English Version If you don't have the money, you might lose your bed. Douay-Rheims Bible For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there, that he should take the covering from thy bed? English Revised Version If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? GOD'S WORD® Translation If you have no money to pay back a loan, why should your bed be repossessed? Good News Translation If you should be unable to pay, they will take away even your bed. International Standard Version If you don't have the ability to pay, why should your very bed be taken from under you? JPS Tanakh 1917 If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee? Literal Standard Version If you have nothing to pay, | Why does he take your bed from under you? Majority Standard Bible If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? New American Bible For if you are unable to pay, your bed will be taken from under you. NET Bible If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you! New Revised Standard Version If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? New Heart English Bible If you do not have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you? Webster's Bible Translation If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? World English Bible If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you? Young's Literal Translation If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Thirty Sayings of the Wise…26Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts. 27If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? 28Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.… Cross References Exodus 22:26 If you take your neighbor's cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, Proverbs 20:16 Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner. Treasury of Scripture If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you? Proverbs 20:16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. Exodus 22:26,27 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: … 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 sons to be bondmen. Jump to Previous Bed Lack Means Pay Payment Snatched WherewithJump to Next Bed Lack Means Pay Payment Snatched WherewithProverbs 22 1. A good name is more desirable than great wealth(27) Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?--If the mantle was taken in pledge, it had to be restored before sundown for the poor man to sleep in; but this merciful provision of the Law was evidently evaded. (Comp. Ezekiel 18:12.) Hebrew Ifאִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not you have nothing אֵֽין־ (’ên-) Adverb Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle with which לְךָ֥ (lə·ḵā) Preposition | second person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew to pay, לְשַׁלֵּ֑ם (lə·šal·lêm) Preposition | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's 7999: To be safe, to be, completed, to be friendly, to reciprocate why לָ֥מָּה (lām·māh) Interrogative Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what should your bed מִ֝שְׁכָּבְךָ֗ (miš·kā·ḇə·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 4904: Place of lying, a couch, act of lying be taken יִקַּ֥ח (yiq·qaḥ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3947: To take from under you? מִתַּחְתֶּֽיךָ׃ (mit·taḥ·te·ḵā) Preposition | Preposition | second person masculine singular Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of Links Proverbs 22:27 NIVProverbs 22:27 NLT Proverbs 22:27 ESV Proverbs 22:27 NASB Proverbs 22:27 KJV Proverbs 22:27 BibleApps.com Proverbs 22:27 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 22:27 Chinese Bible Proverbs 22:27 French Bible Proverbs 22:27 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 22:27 If you don't have means to pay (Prov. 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