Proverbs 22:7 Cross References - NSB

⁷ The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

¹ The widow of a member of a group of prophets said to Elisha: »My husband has died! As you know, he was a man who respected God. A man to whom he owed money came to take away my two sons as slaves in payment for my husband's debt.«

⁴ Yet others said: »We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes. ⁵ »But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children. Now we give our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants. Some of our daughters are servants even now. We have no power to stop this. For other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.«

³¹ He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker. He who honors his Maker has mercy for the poor.

²³ The poor man requests and the rich man answers out of greed.

¹⁶ He who gets ahead by oppressing the poor and giving to the rich will certainly suffer loss.

²² Do not rob the poor because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate.

² The people will be like the one officiating, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.

⁶ Jehovah said: »I will not withdraw punishment for (three sins of Israel, even for four) the many transgressions of Israel! They sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes.

¹ »Hear this word you cows of Bashan who live on the mountain of Samaria. You oppress the poor. You crush the needy. You say to your masters (husbands) (lords), »Bring us drink.«

¹¹ You impose unfair rent on the poor and defraud a tribute of grain from them. You haave built houses of hewn stone yet you will not live in them. You planted pleasant vineyards, but you will not drink the wine from them. ¹² I know you have many transgressions and your sins are great. You afflict the righteous. You take bribes. You refuse to help the needy at the gate.

⁴ »Hear this, you who would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail.

⁶ »We may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

²⁵ »He was not able to make payment. So his lord gave orders for him to be sold. His wife, sons, and daughters were all to be sold along with every possession. The money would be used for payment of what he owed.

⁶ You have dishonored the poor man. Do the rich oppress you, and personally drag you into court?

¹ Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.

⁴ Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts.