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Proverbs 13:8
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Riches are a ransom for a person’s life,but a poor person hears no threat.
The ransom of a man's life is his riches, But the poor hears no threats.
The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, but a poor man hears no threat.
The ransom of a person's life is his wealth, But the poor hears no rebuke.
The rich may have to pay a ransom for their lives, but the poor will face no such danger.
The ransom of a person's life is his wealth, but the poor person hears no threat.
The ransom for a man's life is his wealth, But the poor man does not even have to listen to a rebuke or threats [from the envious].
The ransom of a man's life is his riches, But the poor hears no threats.
A man will giue his riches for the ransome of his life: but the poore cannot heare ye reproch.
The ransom of a man's life is his wealth,But the poor hears no rebuke.
Riches may ransom a man's life, but a poor man hears no threat.
The rich may have to pay a ransom, but the poor don't have that problem.
The rich man may have to ransom his life, but a poor man gets no threats.
The ransom of a man's life is his riches; but the indigent heareth not rebuke.
The ransom of a mans life is his riches; but the poor ignores a rebuke.
The rich have to use their money to save their lives, but no one threatens the poor.
The ransom of the life of a man is his wealth, but the poor does not receive a threat.
The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor man does not hear rebuke.
With goodes euery man delyuereth his life, and the poore wyl not be reproued.
The ransom of a man's life is his riches; But the poor heareth no threatening.
A man will give his wealth in exchange for his life; but the poor will not give ear to sharp words.
The ransom of a man's life are his riches; but the poor heareth no threatening.
The ransome of a mans life are his riches: but the poore heareth not rebuke.
With goodes a man redeemeth his life: and the poore wyll not be reproued.
A man’s own wealth is the ransom of his life: but the poor endures not threatening.
The ransom of a man's life is his riches: but the poor heareth no threatening.
Redempcioun of the soule of man is hise richessis; but he that is pore, suffrith not blamyng.
The ransom of a man's life is his riches; But the poor hears no threatening.
The ransom of a man's life [is] his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
The ransom of a man's life is his riches, But the poor does not hear rebuke.
The rich can pay a ransom for their lives, but the poor won't even get threatened.
A rich man can use his riches to save his life, but the poor man does not hear strong words spoken to him.
Wealth is a ransom for a person's life, but the poor get no threats.
The ransom of a man's life, is his wealth, but, the poor, heareth not rebuke.
The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but he that is poor, beareth not reprehension.
The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, but a poor man has no means of redemption.
The ransom of a man's life [are] his riches, And the poor hath not heard rebuke.
The rich can be sued for everything they have, but the poor are free of such threats.
The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, But the poor hears no rebuke.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ransom: Proverbs 6:35, Exodus 21:30, Job 2:4, Psalms 49:6-10, Jeremiah 41:8, Matthew 16:26, 1 Peter 1:18, 1 Peter 1:19
the poor: 2 Kings 24:14, 2 Kings 25:12, Jeremiah 39:10, Zephaniah 3:12
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:39 - or else Proverbs 3:35 - but Luke 12:23 - General Philippians 3:7 - General
Cross-References
At this time Abram was very rich. He had many animals and much silver and gold.
Abram continued traveling around. He left the Negev and went back to Bethel. He went to the place between the city of Bethel and Ai, where he and his family had camped before.
Abram and Lot had so many animals that the land could not support both of them together.
(The Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in this land at the same time.) The shepherds of Abram and Lot began to argue.
We should separate. You can choose any place you want. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left."
So Lot chose to live in the Jordan Valley. The two men separated, and Lot began traveling east.
After Lot left, the Lord said to Abram, "Look around you. Look north, south, east, west.
So go. Walk through your land. I now give it to you."
So Abram moved his tents. He went to live near the big trees of Mamre. This was near the city of Hebron. There he built an altar to honor the Lord .
Then Joseph told his brothers to go. While they were leaving, he said to them, "Go straight home, and don't fight on the way."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The ransom of a man's life [are] his riches,.... As Benhadad's were to him, when he was in the hands of the king of Israel,
1 Kings 20:34; and as the treasures the ten men had in the field were to them, for the sake of which Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, slew them not, Jeremiah 41:8. This is the advantage of riches when a man is taken captive in war, or by pirates, or is in the hands of thieves and robbers, he can redeem himself by his money; or when his life is in danger by diseases, he can procure healing medicines; or by famine, he can get food to preserve it, when a poor man cannot: but this is not to be done always, and is only to be understood of a temporal life; for, as to the spiritual and eternal redemption of the soul of man, that requires a greater ransom price than such corruptible things as silver and gold; nothing short of the precious blood of Christ is sufficient for that, Job 36:18. Moreover, these words may not so much design the convenience as the inconvenience of riches to men; since these often invite thieves to assault their persons, and break into their houses, and threaten their lives; and put wicked men upon forming schemes, and drawing up charges and accusations against them, purely to get their money; which bring their lives into danger, and which they can only redeem by their riches;
but the poor heareth not rebuke; no charge and accusation is brought against him; no rebuke or reproof is given him; no notice is taken of him, because nothing is to be got from him; he may sleep with his door unlocked, thieves will give him no disturbance; he may travel upon the road without being bid to stand c. Jarchi interprets this of him that is poor in the law; that hearkens not to reproofs and admonitions, given him to depart from evil: but rather it may be applied to the poor in spirit; who trust not in themselves and their own righteousness, but in the grace of God and righteousness of Christ; who indeed hear the rebukes of good men, and take them kindly; and of bad men, and return not revilings for them; and also the rebukes of Providence, or the chastisements of their heavenly Father, yet they will never hear any rebuke in wrath from him here or hereafter; when the rich in their own conceit, who trust in their riches and righteousness, and think to ransom their souls from death by them, will have rebukes with flames of fire.
c "Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator", Juvenal. Sat. 10. v. 23.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
On the one side is the seeming advantage of wealth. The rich man who gets out of many troubles often escapes from a just retribution by his money. But then the poor man in his turn is free from the risk of the threats and litigation that beset the rich. He âhears no rebukeâ (the words are not used as in Proverbs 13:1) just as the dead âhear not the voice of the oppressorâ Job 3:18 or the abuse of the envious.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 13:8. The ransom of a man's life — Those who have riches have often much trouble with them; as they had much trouble to get them, so they have much trouble to keep them. In despotic countries, a rich man is often accused of some capital crime, and to save his life, though he may be quite innocent, is obliged to give up his riches; but the poor, in such countries, are put to no trouble.
