Proverbs 22:27

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:16 : 16 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, 27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
  • 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 22:26
    82%

    26 Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

  • Deut 24:10-13
    4 verses
    80%

    10 When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

    11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.

    12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

    13 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

  • Prov 22:28
    78%

    28 Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

  • Exod 22:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25 "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

    26 If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

  • Job 22:5-7
    3 verses
    76%

    5 Isn't your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

    6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

    7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Prov 27:13
    75%

    13 Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

  • Job 17:3
    75%

    3 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

  • Exod 22:11-15
    5 verses
    75%

    11 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

    12 But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

    13 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.

    14 "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

    15 If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

  • Job 36:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

    19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

  • Lev 25:36-37
    2 verses
    74%

    36 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

    37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

  • Deut 24:6
    73%

    6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.

  • Prov 6:1
    73%

    1 My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

  • Matt 18:25
    72%

    25 But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

  • Job 35:7
    72%

    7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

  • Exod 22:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

    8 If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods.

  • Deut 24:15
    72%

    15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

  • Prov 20:16
    72%

    16 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

  • Ezek 18:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

    8 he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

  • Prov 3:27
    72%

    27 Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

  • Jer 22:13
    71%

    13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

  • Matt 5:26
    71%

    26 Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.

  • Job 31:39
    71%

    39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

  • Exod 22:3
    71%

    3 If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

  • Isa 28:20
    71%

    20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

  • Deut 24:17
    71%

    17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Exod 21:30
    71%

    30 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

  • Prov 6:3
    71%

    3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

  • Prov 22:7
    71%

    7 The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

  • Luke 12:59
    71%

    59 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny."

  • Eccl 5:5
    71%

    5 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

  • Prov 17:18
    71%

    18 A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

  • Job 6:22
    71%

    22 Did I say, 'Give to me?' or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?'

  • Prov 22:22
    71%

    22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

  • Exod 21:11
    71%

    11 If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

  • Prov 11:15
    71%

    15 He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

  • Prov 25:17
    70%

    17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.