22:27 for it is his only covering—it is his garment for his body.60 What else can he sleep in?61 And62 when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.
tn Literally the text reads, “In what can he lie down?” The cloak would be used for a covering at night to use when sleeping. The garment, then, was the property that could not be taken and not given back—it was the last possession. The modern idiom of “the shirt off his back” gets at the point being made here.