Proverbs 29:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.

Proverbs 29:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:45
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Proverbs 22:2
The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
Psalms 13:3
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Ephesians 2:1
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Leviticus 25:35-37
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 13)

This shows how wisely the great God serves the designs of his providence by persons of very different tempers, capacities, and conditions in the world, even, 1. By those that are contrary the one to the other. Some are poor and forced to borrow; others are rich, have a great deal of the mammon of unrighteousness (deceitful riches they are called), and they are creditors, or usurers, as it is in th…

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

(vv. 13)

13. (Compare Pr 22:2). deceitful man--literally, “man of vexations,” an exactor. the Lord ... their eyes--sustains their lives (1Sa 14:27; Psa 13:3); that is, both depend on Him, and He will do justice.