Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule the poor, and borrowers are slaves to their lenders.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
In Context
6Teach children the right way to live, and when they grow up they'll go on doing so.
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:4Still more said, “We've had to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay the king's tax.
Proverbs 14:31Anyone who oppresses the poor insults their Maker, but anyone who is kind to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 22:16If you oppress the poor to make yourself rich, or if you're generous to the rich, you'll end up poor yourself.
Isaiah 24:2It will happen the same for everybody—whether people or priests, servants or their masters, maids or their mistresses, buyers or sellers, lenders or borrowers, creditors or debtors.
Amos 4:1Listen to this message, you well-fed cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, and who order your husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
Amos 8:4Listen to this, you who trample down the needy, and wipe out the poor of the land.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:7
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Here is, 1. A great duty enjoined, particularly to those that are the parents and instructors of children, in order to the propagating of wisdom, that it may not die with them: Train up children in that age of vanity, to keep them from the sins and snares of it, in that learning age, to prepare them for what they are designed for. Catechise them; initiate them; keep them under discipline. Train them as soldiers, who are… Read the whole commentary →