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Proverbs 22:27

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

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  1. Proverbs 22:25

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

  2. Proverbs 22:26

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

  3. Proverbs 22:28

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

  4. Proverbs 22:29

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

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.