Proverbs 22:2
The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
In Context
1A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
3A prudent man forsees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:7The LORD makes poor, and makes rich: he brings low, and lifts up.
Job 34:19How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
Proverbs 14:31He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.
Luke 16:19There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
James 2:2For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:2
Miscellaneous Maxims. 1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. Here are two things which are more valuable and which we should covet more than great riches:—1. To be well spoken of: A name (that is, a good name, a name for good things with God and good people) is rather to be chosen than great riches; that is, we should be more careful to do that by which we may get and keep a good name than that by which we may raise and increase a great estate. Great… Read the whole commentary →