Proverbs 22:27

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

ASV

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

LSV

If you have nothing to pay, || Why does he take your bed from under you?

YLT

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

DBY

if thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

DRC

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

GNV

If thou hast nothing to paye, why causest thou that he should take thy bed from vnder thee?

JPS

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

LXXE

For if those have not whence to give compensation, they will take the bed that is under thee.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אִם־אֵֽין־לְךָ֥ לְשַׁלֵּ֑ם לָ֥מָּה יִקַּ֥ח מִ֝שְׁכָּבְךָ֗ מִתַּחְתֶּֽיךָ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐὰν γὰρ μὴ ἔχῃ πόθεν ἀποτίσῃς, λήψονται τὸ στρῶμα τὸ ὑπὸ τὰς πλευράς σου.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 20:16Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
• Exodus 22:26–27If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am…
• 2 Kings 4:1Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his…

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