2The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
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Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.
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.
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…
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