Proverbs 22:7

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

American Standard Version

The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.

Geneva Bible 1599

The rich ruleth the poore, and the borower is seruant to the man that lendeth.

Darby Translation

The rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Young's Literal Translation

The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant [is] the borrower to the lender.

Bible in Basic English

The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.

In context

6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

8He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

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