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Proverbs 22

Prov. 22:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The rich
`ashiyr (Hebrew #6223)
rich, whether literal or figurative (noble)
KJV usage: rich (man).
Pronounce: aw-sheer'
Origin: from 6238
ruleth
mashal (Hebrew #4910)
to rule
KJV usage: (have, make to have) dominion, governor, X indeed, reign, (bear, cause to, have) rule(-ing, -r), have power.
Pronounce: maw-shal'
Origin: a primitive root
over the poor
ruwsh (Hebrew #7326)
to be destitute
KJV usage: lack, needy, (make self) poor (man).
Pronounce: roosh
Origin: a primitive root
, and the borrower
lavah (Hebrew #3867)
properly, to twine, i.e. (by implication) to unite, to remain; also to borrow (as a form of obligation) or (caus.) to lend
KJV usage: abide with, borrow(-er), cleave, join (self), lend(-er).
Pronounce: law-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
is servant
`ebed (Hebrew #5650)
a servant
KJV usage: X bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
Pronounce: eh'-bed
Origin: from 5647
to the γlender
lavah (Hebrew #3867)
properly, to twine, i.e. (by implication) to unite, to remain; also to borrow (as a form of obligation) or (caus.) to lend
KJV usage: abide with, borrow(-er), cleave, join (self), lend(-er).
Pronounce: law-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
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man that lendeth.

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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rich.
Prov. 22:16,22• 16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [wealth],{HR}He that giveth to the rich, surely [cometh] only to want.
 22Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor,{HR}Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; (Prov. 22:16,22)
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Prov. 14:31• 31He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker;{HR}But he that honoureth Him is merciful to the needy. (Prov. 14:31)
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Prov. 18:23• 23The poor speaketh supplications,{HR}But the rich answereth roughly. (Prov. 18:23)
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Amos 2:6• 6{i}Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;{/i} (Amos 2:6)
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Amos 4:1• 1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. (Amos 4:1)
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Amos 5:11‑12• 11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
 12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. (Amos 5:11‑12)
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Amos 8:4,6• 4{i}Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,{/i}
 6{i}that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.{/i} (Amos 8:4,6)
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James 2:6• 6But ye dishonoured the poor [man]. Do not the rich oppress you, and they drag you before tribunals? (James 2:6)
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James 5:1,4• 1Come then, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming on.
 4Behold, the hire of the labourers who reaped your fields, that is kept back of you crieth out, and the cries of those that reaped entered into the ears of Jehovah of hosts. (James 5:1,4)
the borrower.
2 Kings 4:1• 1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, 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 sons as bondmen. (2 Kings 4:1)
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Neh. 5:4‑5• 4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
 5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters {i}to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already; neither is it in the power of our hand to redeem them, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.{/i} (Neh. 5:4‑5)
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Isa. 24:2• 2And 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 lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken. (Isa. 24:2)
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Matt. 18:25• 25But as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and the children and all that he had, and payment to be made. (Matt. 18:25)
lender.
Heb. man that lendeth.
• He who heeds the Scriptural injunction to “Owe no man anything, but to love one another” (Rom. 13:8), will escape the awful bondage of the debtor. The rich almost invariably lord it over the poor, save where grace comes in to check the latent pride of the human heart. Therefore it is but natural that he who lends should consider himself superior to the borrower. (“Proverbs Twenty-Two” by H.A. Ironside)
• Many a one by carelessness as to this, has left his family in as dire distress as did the son of the prophet whose decease is mentioned in 2 Kings 4:1. (“Proverbs Twenty-Two” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The rich ruleth over the poora; and the borrower is servant to the lender.

JND Translation Notes

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Roosh, or "destitute," "indigent." as ch. 28.3.

W. Kelly Translation

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The rich ruleth over the poor,{HR}And the borrower [is] servant of the lender.