Proverbs 22:2
1 A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.
The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
3 The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.
4 The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
- KJV
- The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
- WEB
- The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is the maker of them all.
- ASV
- The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.
- DARBY
- The rich and poor meet together; Jehovah is the maker of them all.
- BLB
- The rich and the poor meet together; the maker of them all [is] YHWH.
- ÅB
- Rik og fattig møtes; Herren har skapt dem begge.
- OTB
- Den rike og den fattige har dette til felles: Herren er skaperen av dem alle.
- B1930
- Rik og fattig møtes; Herren har skapt dem begge.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 31:15
Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
Read in context1 Samuel 2:7
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
Read in contextProverbs 14:31
Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
Read in contextProverbs 29:13
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both.
Read in contextJob 34:19
who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
Read in contextJames 2:2–5
Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.
Read in context1 Corinthians 12:21
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”
Read in contextPsalms 49:1–2
Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,
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