Proverbs 22:7

Y'all Version Bible

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared YHWH. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

Proverbs 22:16

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

James 2:6

But y’all have dishonored the poor. Don’t the rich oppress y’all and personally drag y’all into court?

Matthew 18:25

But because he couldn’t pay, the master ordered that he, his wife, his children, and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

Proverbs 22:22

Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

James 5:1

Come now, wealthy ones, y’all should weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon y’all.

Amos 8:6

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

Amos 8:4

Y’all must listen to this, those who trample the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Amos 4:1

Y’all must listen to this word, cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

Isaiah 24:2

It will 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 creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

James 5:4

Look! The wages of the laborers who mowed y’all’s fields, which y’all have kept back by fraud, cry out against y’all. The cries of the harvesters have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Amos 2:6

YHWH says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;