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Darby's French Translation
Proverbes 13:8
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Les richesses font que l'homme est ran�onn�; mais le pauvre n'entend point de menaces.
Les richesses font qu'un homme peut racheter sa vie; mais le pauvre n'entend point de menaces.
La richesse d'un homme sert de ran�on pour sa vie, Mais le pauvre n'�coute pas la r�primande.
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
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 “hears no rebuke” (the words are not used as in Proverbs 13:1) just as the dead “hear not the voice of the oppressor” 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.
