Proverbs 22:7

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Summary

Proverbs 22:7

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Rich

The borrower

Bible References

Rich

Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals--

"Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, 'Bring, that we may drink!'

Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,

But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.

The borrower

Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves."

And there were those who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.