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Proverbs 22:7-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Proverbs 22:7-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is the slave of the lender.[a]
8 Those who sow iniquity reap calamity,(A)
and the rod used in anger will fail.[b]
9 The generous will be blessed,
for they share their food with the poor.
Footnotes
- 22:7 An observation on money and power. One who borrows becomes poor in the sense of indebted, a slave to the lender.
- 22:8 Agricultural metaphors express the failure of malicious actions. In the first line, bad actions are seeds yielding trouble. In the second line, “the rod” is a flail used to beat grains as in Is 28:27.
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