Devine Scripture

Proverbs 22:7

Proverbs chapter 22 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.6Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

v.7This passage

v.8He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • James 5:4

    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.

  • James 2:6

    But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?

  • Proverbs 22:22

    Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

  • Amos 8:4

    Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

  • 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.

  • Nehemiah 5:4

    There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.