PROVERBS 22:27

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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

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Proverbs 22:27 Translation & Meaning

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If אִם Used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not If
thou hast nothing אֵֽין A nonentity; generally used as a negative particle nothing
to pay, לְשַׁלֵּ֑ם To be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications) pay
why לָ֥מָּה Properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses why
should he take away יִקַּ֥ח To take (in the widest variety of applications) should take away
thy bed מִ֝שְׁכָּבְךָ֗ A bed (figuratively, a bier); abstractly, sleep; by euphemism, carnal intercourse bed
from under מִתַּחְתֶּֽיךָ׃ The bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc under
thee? מִתַּחְתֶּֽיךָ׃ The bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc thee

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  • 25  Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

  • 26  Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

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

  • 28  Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

  • 29  Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.




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