Verse 2
The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.
Referenced Verses
- Job 31:15 : 15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
- Prov 14:31 : 31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; But he that hath mercy on the needy honoreth him.
- Prov 29:13 : 13 The poor man and the oppressor meet together; Jehovah lighteneth the eyes of them both.
- Job 34:19 : 19 That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
- 1 Cor 12:21 : 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
- Jas 2:2-5 : 2 For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing; 3 and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool; 4 do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?
- 1 Sam 2:7 : 7 Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich: He bringeth low, he also lifteth up.
- Ps 49:1-2 : 1 [For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah]. Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world, 2 Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
- Luke 16:19-20 : 19 Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day: 20 and a certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, full of sores,