Proverbs 22:7
The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dives pauperibus imperat, et qui accipit mutuum servus est fœnerantis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πλούσιοι πτωχῶν ἄρξουσιν, καὶ οἰκέται ἰδίοις δεσπόταις δανιοῦσιν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עָ֭שִׁיר בְּרָשִׁ֣ים יִמְשׁ֑וֹל וְעֶ֥בֶד לֹ֝וֶ֗ה לְאִ֣ישׁ מַלְוֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
Servant. He might be sold, &c., Exodus xxii. 3., and Matthew xviii. 25. (Gell. xx. 1.) Plato (Leg. viii.) would have nothing sold on credit. These laws appear to be severe; but they are founded on wisdom, as nothing impoverishes more than the facility of borrowing.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.