Proverbs 22:2
1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, 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 that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Read in context1 Samuel 2:7
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Read in contextProverbs 14:31
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Read in contextProverbs 29:13
The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.
Read in contextJob 34:19
How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
Read in contextJames 2:2–5
For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
Read in context1 Corinthians 12:21
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Read in contextPsalms 49:1–2
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
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