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 you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?
Proverbs 18:23
The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.
2 Kings 4:1
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."
Nehemiah 5:4-5
And there were those who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards.
Proverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 22:16
Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
Proverbs 22:22
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,
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 creditor, so with the debtor.
Amos 2:6
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--
Amos 4:1
"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!'
Amos 5:11-12
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.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,
Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?"
Matthew 18:25
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.
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.