Proverbs 22:7
The rich will rule over the poor, and servants will lend to their own masters.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
In Context
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:4And some said, We have borrowed money for the king's tributes:—our fields, and our vineyards, and houses are pledged.
Proverbs 14:31He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker: but he that honors him has pity upon the poor.
Proverbs 22:16He that oppresses the poor, increases his own substance, yet gives to the rich so as to make it less.
Isaiah 24:2And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.
Amos 4:1Hear you⌃ this word, you⌃ heifers of the land of Basan that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink.
Amos 8:4Hear now this, you⌃ that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,
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 →