One of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.’
Proverbs 22:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave 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. |
One of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.’
The one who oppresses the poor person insults his Maker, but one who is kind to the needy honours him.
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich #– #both lead only to poverty.
Don’t rob a poor person because he is poor, and don’t crush the oppressed at the city gate,
people and priest alike, servant and master, female servant and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.
Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring us something to drink.’
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff! ’
Since he did not have the money to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.
Yet you have dishonoured the poor. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into court?
Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.
Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who mowed your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Armies.