Proverbs 22:7 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁷ The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ The rich ruleth over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.

Common English Bible

⁷ The wealthy rule over the poor; a borrower is a slave to a lender.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ The rich rule over the poor. And the borrower is servant to the lender.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth.

Proverbs 22:7 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of one 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 the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

Proverbs 22:16

He who oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to want.

Proverbs 22:22

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;

Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, 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 needy for a pair of shoes—

Amos 4:1

“Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy, and bring the poor of the land to an end,

Amos 8:6

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

Matthew 18:25

and as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you, is it not they who drag you into court?

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.