Proverbs 22:7
Rich people rule over poor people harshly, and those who borrow money become like slaves [MET] of the people who lend money to them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
In Context
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:4Others said, “We have needed to borrow money to pay the taxes that the king commanded us to pay on our fields and our vineyards.
Proverbs 14:31Those who oppress poor people are insulting God, the one who made those poor people, but acting kindly toward them is respecting God.
Proverbs 22:16Those who oppress poor people in order to become rich, and those who give a bribe to rich people in order that the rich people will do a favor for them, will just lose their money.
Isaiah 24:2He will scatter everyone— priests and common people, servants and their masters, maids and their mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, people who owe money and people who are owed money.
Amos 4:1You wealthy women of Samaria have grown fat like [MET] the fat cows of the Bashan region. You oppress poor people and you cause needy people to suffer. And you say to your husbands, “Bring us more wine to drink!”
Amos 8:4It is as though you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor people.
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 →