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Proverbs 13:7 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 13 · verse 7
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.Proverbs 13:7 · King James Version
Proverbs 13:7 in context
5A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
6Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
7There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
8The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
9The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
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This observation is applicable, I. To men's worldly estate. The world is a great cheat, not only the things of the world, but the men of the world. All men are liars. Here is an instance in two sore evils under the sun: - 1. Some that are really poor would be thought to be rich and are thought to be so;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary