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Proverbs 22:2
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The rich and poor have this in common: The Lord made them both.
The rich and the poor meet together: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
The rich and the poor are alike in that the Lord made them all.
The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the Creator of them both.
The rich and poor meet together: the LORD [is] the maker of them all.
The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all.
A riche man and a pore man metten hem silf; the Lord is worchere of euer eithir.
The rich and the poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
The rich and the poor have this in common: the LORD is Maker of them all.
The rich and the poor are all created by the Lord .
The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.
The man of wealth and the poor man come face to face: the Lord is the maker of them all.
Rich and poor have this in common — Adonai made them both.
The rich and poor meet together; Jehovah is the maker of them all.
The rich and the poor are the same. The Lord made them all.
The rich and the poor meet together--the LORD is the maker of them all.
The rich and poore meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.
The rich and the poor meet together. The Lord is the maker of them all.
The rich and the poor have this in common: the Lord is the maker of them all.
The rich and poore meete together: the Lord is the maker of them all.
The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them both.
The rich and the poor have this in common: the Lord made them both.
The rich and the poor, meet together, the maker of them all, is Yahweh.
The rich and poor have met one another: the Lord is the maker of them both.
The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all.
The riche and poore meete together: the Lorde is the maker of them all.
The rich and the poor meet together; but the Lord made them both.
Rich and poor have this in common:the Lord makes them all.
The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is the maker of them all.
The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.
Rich and poor have much in common; Yahweh is the maker of all of them.
The rich and poor meet together, Jehovah is the Maker of all of them.
Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all [is] Jehovah.
Whether riches or pouerte do mete vs, it commeth all of God.
The rich and the poor shake hands as equals— God made them both!
The rich and the poor have a common bond, The LORD is the Maker of them all.
The rich and the poor have this in common, The LORD is the maker of them all.
The rich and the poor have a common bond, The LORD is the maker of them all.
The rich and the poor meet together in this—Yahweh is the Maker of them all.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
rich: Proverbs 29:13, 1 Samuel 2:7, Psalms 49:1, Psalms 49:2, Luke 16:19, Luke 16:20, 1 Corinthians 12:21, James 2:2-5
the Lord: Proverbs 14:31, Job 31:15, Job 34:19
Reciprocal: Exodus 30:15 - rich Leviticus 14:21 - poor Deuteronomy 15:11 - the poor Psalms 33:15 - fashioneth
Cross-References
But God said, "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed, and you shall name him Isaac (laughter); and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.
God said to Abraham, "Do not let it distress you because of Ishmael and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her and do what she asks, for your descendants will be named through Isaac.
When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood, and bound Isaac his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.
The LORD said, "Do not reach out [with the knife in] your hand against the boy, and do nothing to [harm] him; for now I know that you fear God [with reverence and profound respect], since you have not withheld from Me your son, your only son [of promise]."
and said, "By Myself (on the basis of Who I Am) I have sworn [an oath], declares the LORD, that since you have done this thing and have not withheld [from Me] your son, your only son [of promise],
then whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites, it shall be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering."
At the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her as he had vowed; and she had no relations with a man. It became a custom in Israel,
Then the king of Moab took his eldest son, who was to reign in his place, and offered him [publicly] as a burnt offering [to Chemosh] on the [city] wall [horrifying everyone]. And there was great wrath against Israel, and Israel's allies [Judah and Edom] withdrew from King Jehoram and returned to their own land.
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to his father David, in the place that David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The rich and poor meet together,.... In an hostile way, as some; they rush upon one another; the rich despise the poor, and the poor envy the rich; they cannot speak well one of another, as the Arabic version; or they are dependent on one another, they cannot do without each other; as in the natural body one member cannot say to another, I have no need of thee; so, in the body politic, the rich and the poor cannot say they have no need of one another; the rich stand in need of the poor to till their land, to plough and sow, and do all other servile works for them; and the poor have need of the rich to employ them; have need of their money as their wages for their work, to support themselves and families with: or they sometimes change conditions, and so meet; the poor grow rich, and the rich become poor; the one goes uphill and the other downhill, and so meet in their passage. They meet together in all places of the earth; go where you will, there are rich and poor. The godly rich and poor meet together in one place to worship God; they meet together in a Gospel church state, enjoying the same privileges and ordinances; and will all meet the Lord, and all meet together at his judgment seat; and they will meet in heaven, and be together to all eternity, where the distinction will cease: and the wicked rich and poor meet together to commit sin; and they meet together in the grave q, where there is no difference; and they will meet at the bar of God at the last day, and in hell, where they will be together for evermore;
the Lord [is] the Maker of them all: not only as men, but as rich men and poor men; God gives riches to whom he pleases, and poverty to whom he pleases; riches and poverty are according to the order of divine Providence; and he can and does change scenes at his pleasure; wherefore the rich should consider themselves as dependent on him, and not despise and crush the poor; and the poor should be content with their state, as being allotted to them by the Lord, who can alter it when he thinks fit.
q "Victor cum victis pariter miscebitur umbris--Lydus Delichio, non ditat Croesus ab Iro", Propert. l. 3. Eleg. 5. v. 15, 17.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Compare the margin reference. Another recognition of the oneness of a common humanity, overriding all distinctions of rank.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 22:2. The rich and poor meet together — עשיר ashir the opulent, whether in money, land, or property; רש rash, the man that is destitute of these, and lives by his labour, whether a handicraftsman, or one that tills the ground. In the order of God, the rich and the poor live together, and are mutually helpful to each other. Without the poor, the rich could not be supplied with the articles which they consume; for the poor include all the labouring classes of society: and without the rich, the poor could get no vent for the produce of their laborer, nor, in many cases, labour itself. The poor have more time to labour than the mere necessaries of life require; their extra time is employed in providing a multitude of things which are called the superfluities of life, and which the rich especially consume. All the poor man's time is thus employed; and he is paid for his extra labour by the rich. The rich should not despise the poor, without whom he can neither have his comforts, nor maintain his state. The poor should not envy the rich, without whom he could neither get employment, nor the necessaries of life.
The Lord is the Maker of them all. — Both the states are in the order of God's providence, and both are equally important in his sight. Merely considered as men, God loves the simple artificer or labourer as much as he does the king; though the office of the latter, because of its entering into the plan of his government of the world, is of infinitely greatly consequence than the trade of the poor artificer. Neither should despise the other; neither should envy the other. Both are useful; both important; both absolutely necessary to each other's welfare and support; and both are accountable to God for the manner in which they acquit themselves in those duties of life which God has respectively assigned them. The abject poor - those who are destitute of health and the means of life - God in effect lays at the rich man's door, that by his superfluities they may be supported. How wise is that ordinance which has made the rich and the poor! Pity it were not better understood!
