Proverbs 22:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

Proverbs 22:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 31:15
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Proverbs 14:31
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
1 Samuel 2:7
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Proverbs 29:13
The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.
Job 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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 2)

Note, 1. Among the children of men divine Providence has so ordered it that some are rich and others poor, and these are intermixed in societies: The Lord is the Maker of both, both the author of their being and the disposer of their lot. The greatest man in the world must acknowledge God to be his Maker, and is under the same obligations to be subject to him that the meanest is; and the poorest h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. Before God all are on the same footing (Pr 14:31; 17:5).