Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
BSB
ASV
If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
KJV
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
He - i. e., The man to whom the surety has been given. The practice of distraining for payment of a debt, seems, though prohibited Exo 22:27, to have become common.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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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…
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Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do…
The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
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Proverbs 20:16Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
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Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
