Proverbs 18:23
The poor speaks [with] supplications, || And the rich answers fierce things.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
In Context
22[Whoever] has found a wife has found good, || And brings out goodwill from YHWH.
24A man with friends—to show himself friendly, || And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!
Cross References
Genesis 42:7And Joseph sees his brothers, and discerns them, and makes himself strange to them, and speaks sharp things with them, and says to them, “From where have you come?” And they say, “From the land of Canaan—to buy food.”
Exodus 5:2and Pharaoh says, “Who [is] YHWH, that I listen to His voice to send Israel away? I have not known YHWH, and I also do not send Israel away.”
1 Samuel 2:36and it has been, everyone who is left in your house comes to bow himself to him for a wage of silver and a cake of bread, and has said, Please admit me to one of the priest’s offices, to eat a morsel of bread.”
1 Samuel 25:17And now, know and consider what you do; for evil has been determined against our lord, and against all his house, and he [is] too much a son of worthlessness to be spoken to.”
Job 41:3Does he multiply supplications to you? Does he speak tender things to you?
Isaiah 66:2And My hand has made all these, || And all these things are,” || A declaration of YHWH! “And to this one I look attentively, || To the humble and bruised in spirit, || And who is trembling at My word.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:23
22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord . Note, 1. A good wife is a great blessing to a man. He that finds a wife (that is, a wife indeed; a bad wife does not deserve to be called by a name of so much honour), that finds a help meet for him (that is a wife in the original acceptation of the word), that sought such a one with care and prayer and has found what he sought, he has found a good thing, a jewel of great value, a rare jewel; he has found that which will not only… Read the whole commentary →