If You Have Nothing to Pay - Proverbs 22:27

In the book of Proverbs Solomon said, “be not you one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts, ...”, and in chapter twenty-two and verse twenty-seven of Proverbs Solomon shared about, “if you have nothing to pay” where we read,

If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

The verse begins, “If you have nothing to pay, ...” Solomon began with the words, “if you have nothing” or “whether and in case you, the reader and listener to Solomon's words, hold, own and possess not one thing” “to pay” which means “to recompense, reward, render or amend”. Solomon considered the idea of his reader and listener not possessing anything to recompense or provide for restitution. 

The verse continues, “... why should he take away your bed from under you?” Solomon added the words, “why should he take away your bed” or “for what reason and cause should the person, with whom they struck hands or became sureties for debts, seize, fetch, lay hold of and acquire your, the person who strikes hands or becomes sureties for debts', place for lying down or sleeping” “from under you” which means “separate and apart from beneath you, the person who struck hands or became surety for debts”? Solomon asked for what reason the lender should remove the sleeping place from the person who became the guarantor of a debt. 

When we meditate upon the words in this verse, we discover through Solomon the reason a person should not “strike hands” or become “surety” for debts. If the lender calls in their note and the person who secured the note does not have the means to repay them, the lender will “repossess” or remove their sleeping place from them. God wants us to be wise in our business transactions, and when we surrender to His Son Jesus who was crucified on the cross for our sins, He will forgive our sins, grant us everlasting life and put within us the wisdom not to “strike hands” too quickly or to be a guarantor on a loan that causes our sleeping apparatuses to be taken away for non-payment. 

Next time Solomon says, “remove not the ancient landmark”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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