Proverbs 22:7

Proverbs Of Solomon

⁶ Train the child {concerning his way}; even when he is old, he will not stray from it. ⁷ The rich will rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave of {the lender}. ⁸ He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his anger will fail.

Rule Over

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts?

Proverbs 18:23

The poor may speak entreaties, but the rich will answer roughly.

2 Kings 4:1

A certain woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. Now you know that your servant was a fearer of Yahweh, but the creditor came to take two of my children for himself as slaves.

Nehemiah 5:4-5

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

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses the poor insults him who made him, but he who has mercy on the poor honors him.

Proverbs 22:16

He who oppresses the poor [in order] to enrich himself, [or] gives to the rich, {will come to poverty}.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not 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 female slave, 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 one] to whom he lends.

Amos 2:6

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because they sell the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of sandals!

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, [you] cows of Bashan who [live] on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the powerless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, "Bring [something] so that we may drink!"

Amos 5:11-12

Therefore, because you trample on [the] poor and you take a grain tax from them, you built houses of dressed stone, but you will not live in them. You built vineyards of delightfulness, but you will not drink their wine.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, those who trample on [the] poor and who annihilate the afflicted of [the] land,

Amos 8:6

{That we can} buy [the] powerless with silver and [the] poor for the sake of a pair of sandals, and we can sell the waste of the grain?"

Matthew 18:25

And [because] he did not have [enough] to repay [it], the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich people, weep [and] cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you!

James 5:4

Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.