Proverbs 18:23
What does Proverbs 18:23 mean?
A plain-English look at Proverbs 18:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The poor man makes requests for grace, but the man of wealth gives a rough answer.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862<FI> With<Fi> supplications doth the poor speak, And the rich answereth fierce things.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The poor will speak with supplications, and the rich will speak roughly.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890He that is poor speaketh with supplications, but the rich answereth roughly.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 5:3
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Ruth 2:7
and she said, Let me glean, I pray you, and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. So she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, save that she tarried a little in the house.
- 2 Kings 4:1
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.
- Genesis 42:30
The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
- 1 Samuel 2:36
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thy house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
- Isaiah 66:2
For all these things hath my hand made, and so all these things came to be, saith Jehovah: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word.
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