Proverbs 22:27
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
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…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
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.
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…