Proverbs 22:7 - American Standard Version 2015 The rich ruleth over the poor;\par\tab And the borrower is servant to the lender. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker;\par\tab But he that hath mercy on the needy honoreth him.
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his {\i gain},\par\tab {\i And} he that giveth to the rich, {\i shall come} only to want.\par
Rob not the poor, because he is poor;\par\tab 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 creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
Thus saith Jehovah: 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, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that 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 {\i 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 dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
Behold, the hire of the laborers 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.