OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 16

Proverbs 22:16

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich,

both come to poverty.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Proverbs 22:16 in context

Proverbs 22:13–19

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!

I will be killed in the streets!”

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit.

He who is under the LORD’s wrath will fall into it.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child;

the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Selected verse

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich,

both come to poverty.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise.

Apply your heart to my teaching.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you,

if all of them are ready on your lips.

I teach you today, even you,

so that your trust may be in the LORD.

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