Proverbs 22:7

Modern English Version

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now one of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two sons as slaves.”

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him is kind to the poor.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

Proverbs 22:16

He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth, and he who gives to the rich, will surely come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:22

Exploit not the poor, because he is poor, and oppress not the afflicted at the gate,

Isaiah 24:2

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 creditor, so with the debtor.

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring us something to drink!”

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy to make the poor of the land fail,

Amos 8:6

that we may buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse as wheat?”

Matthew 18:25

But since he was not able to pay, his master ordered that he be sold with his wife, their children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

James 2:6

But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you and drag you before the judgment seats?

James 5:1

Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages that you kept back by fraud from the laborers who harvested your fields are crying, and the cries of those who harvested have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.