THEOSISProverbs 13:7Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.
יֵ֣שׁ מִ֭תְעַשֵּׁר וְאֵ֣ין כֹּ֑ל מִ֝תְרוֹשֵׁ֗שׁ וְה֣וֹן רָֽב׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Rev 3:17Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
- Prov 11:24Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.
- Luke 18:11The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.
- Luke 18:14I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
- Prov 12:9Better is the poor man that provideth for himself, than he that is glorious and wanteth bread.
- 2 Cor 4:7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.
- 2 Cor 6:10As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things.
- Jas 2:5Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?