Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And the borrower becomes the lender’s slave.
King James Version
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Holman Bible
and the borrower is a slave to the lender.
International Standard Version
The wealthy rule over the poor, and anyone who borrows is a slave to the lender.
A Conservative Version
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
American Standard Version
The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.
Amplified
The rich rules over the poor,
And the borrower is servant to the lender.
Bible in Basic English
The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.
Darby Translation
The rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Julia Smith Translation
The rich one will rule over the poor, and he borrowing, a servant to the man lending.
King James 2000
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The rich will rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave of {the lender}.
Modern King James verseion
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The rich ruleth the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.
NET Bible
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
New Heart English Bible
The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.
The Emphasized Bible
The rich, over the poor, beareth rule, - and, slave, is the borrower to the lender.
Webster
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
World English Bible
The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.
Youngs Literal Translation
The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant is the borrower to the lender.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 22:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
6
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
7
And the borrower becomes the lender’s slave.
Phrases
Cross References
James 2:6
But ye have despised the poor. Do not the rich oppress you with tyranny and draw you with violence to the courts?
Proverbs 18:23
The poor uses intreaties, but the rich answer roughly.
2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried unto Elisha, saying, Thy slave, my husband, is dead; and thou knowest that thy slave feared the LORD; and the creditor is come to take my two sons to be his slaves.
Nehemiah 5:4-5
And there were some that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
Proverbs 14:31
He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he that has mercy on the poor, honours him.
Proverbs 22:16
He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches and who gives to the rich shall surely come to want.
Proverbs 22:22
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment:
Isaiah 24:2
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 taker of usury so with the giver of usury to him.
Amos 2:6
Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Israel and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes,
Amos 4:1
Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Amos 5:11-12
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat, ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, and cut off the poor of the land,
Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for money and the needy for a pair of shoes and sell the refuse of the wheat.
Matthew 18:25
But he not having wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, to make payment.
James 5:1
Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.