Proverbs 22:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 The rich ruleth over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The rich ruleth over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. American Standard Version (1901) The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender. Common English Bible The wealthy rule over the poor; a borrower is a slave to a lender. Catholic Public Domain Version The rich rule over the poor. And the borrower is servant to the lender. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth. |
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead: and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: But he that hath mercy on the needy honoureth him.
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain, And he that giveth to the rich, cometh only to want.
Rob not the poor, because he is poor, Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes:
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat.
But forasmuch as he had not wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
But ye have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgement-seats?
Go to now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.