Proverbs 22:27 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:27

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 22:26-27: We have here, as often before, a caution against suretiship, as a thing both imprudent and unjust. 1. We must not associate ourselves, nor contract an intimacy, with men of broken fortunes, and reputations, who need and will urge their friends to be bound for them, that they may cheat their neighbours to feed their lusts, and by keeping up a little longer may do...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 22:27: If thou hast nothing to pay,.... When the debtor this, and the creditor demands the debt of the surety: it is weakness in a man to be a surety for another, when he knows he is not able to pay the debt he is bound for, since it may be an injury to himself and family; but it is a piece of wickedness to engage...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 22:27: should he take, &c.--that is, the creditor.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 22:26-27: Pro 22:26-27 A third distich follows: 26 Be not among those who strike hands, Among those who become surety for loans. 27 If thou hast nothing to pay, Why shall he take away thy bed from under thee? To strike hands is equivalent to, to be responsible to any one for another, to stake one’s goods and honour for him, Pro 6:1; Pro 11:15; Pro...