27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 the more damage at last to those th…
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