Proverbs 22:7 Cross References - ISV

⁷ The wealthy rule over the poor, and anyone who borrows is a slave to the lender.

¹ The Miracle of the Oil Vessels
Now there happened to be a certain woman who had been the wife of a member of the Guild of Prophets. She cried out to Elisha, “My husband who served you has died, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. But a creditor has come to take away my children into indentured servitude!”

⁴ Still others were saying “We’ve borrowed money against our fields and vineyards to pay the king’s taxes. ⁵ Now our bodies are no different than the bodies of our relatives, and our children are like their children. Nevertheless, we’re about to force our sons and daughters into slavery, and some of our daughters are already in bondage. It’s beyond our power to do anything about it, because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

³¹ Whoever oppresses the poor defies their Creator, but whoever is kind to the needy honors them.

²³ The poor person pleads for mercy, but the wealthy man responds harshly.

¹⁶ Whoever oppresses the poor to enrich himself and whoever gives gifts to the wealthy will yield only loss.

²² Don’t rob the poor person because he is poor, and don’t crush the helpless in court,

² It will be the same for the lay people as for priests, the same for servants as for their masters, for female servants as for their mistresses, for buyers as for sellers, for lenders as for borrowers, and for creditors as for debtors.

⁶ A Warning to IsraelThis is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel —and now for a fourth— I will not turn away; because they sold the righteous for money, and the poor for sandals,

¹ Judgment on the Women of Israel “Listen to this message, you fat cows from Bashan, who live on the Samaritan mountains, who oppress the poor, who rob the needy, and who constantly ask your husbands for one more drink!”

¹¹ ‘Therefore, since you trample the poor continuously, taxing his grain, building houses of stone in which you won’t live and planting fine vineyards from which you won’t drink— ¹² and because I know that your transgressions are many, and your sins are numerous as you oppose the righteous, taking bribes as a ransom, and turning away the poor in court—

⁴ “Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, who intend to make the poor of the land fail,

⁶ buying the poor for cash, and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling chaff mixed in with the wheat.’

²⁵ Because he couldn’t pay, his master ordered him, his wife, his children, and everything that he owned to be sold so that payment could be made.

⁶ But you have humiliated the man who is poor. Are not rich people the ones who oppress you and drag you into court?

¹ Advice for Rich PeopleNow listen, you rich people! Cry and moan over the miseries that are overtaking you.

⁴ Look! The wages that you kept back from the workers who harvested your fields are shouting out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.